[The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil]@TWC D-Link bookThe Luckiest Girl in the School CHAPTER VIII 19/29
They watched her now with interest and enthusiasm. It took her a long time to fix her camera in good position.
It was difficult to see properly in the viewfinder, and she wanted to be quite sure that when the head of Sir Guy was safely in the right-hand corner, his feet were not out of the picture at the left, to say nothing of the ten kneeling children underneath. "It's impossible to get the wall above if I'm to take the inscription on the monument," she declared, "and yet I mustn't leave out the old helmet on any account.
I shall take it down, and put it at the bottom of the tomb while I photograph it.
It ought to come out rather well there." Rejecting eager offers of help from Mamie and Ernie, Winona climbed up on to the stately person of Dame Margaret de Claremont, and managed to take the helmet from the wooden peg on which it was suspended.
She posed it at the foot of the monument, on the right hand side. "There's a splendid light from this window--full sunshine! I think if I give it five minutes' exposure, that ought to do the deed.
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