In physical agility Winona was superior to Garnet.

She could beat her easily at tennis, and there was already a wide gap between their gymnastic achievements.

It was a fortunate circumstance, for it just balanced their friendship, and put them on a footing of equality which would have been otherwise absent.

Garnet, so manifestly first in Form work, possessed of greater confidence and _savoir faire_ in school life and older in experience for her years than Winona, might have monopolized the lead too entirely, had she not been obliged to yield the palm of outdoor sports to her friend.
Garnet was, in truth, just a trifle inclined to "boss." She liked Winona, and wanted her for a chum, but she loved to lay down the law and to constitute herself an authority upon every possible subject.

There was no doubt it was owing to her initiative that the two scholarship-holders were gaining a position for themselves in the school.