Would you mind leaving it in my hands for the present ?" Mrs.Miller said that she did not care in whose hands it remained provided her own were washed of it, and resumed her work at the papers.
Miss Wilson then, wishing to be alone, went into the empty classroom at the other side of the landing.

She took the Fault Book from its shelf and sat down before it.

Its record closed with the announcement, in Agatha's handwriting: "Miss Wilson has called me impertinent, and has written to my uncle that I have refused to obey the rules.

I was not impertinent; and I never refused to obey the rules.

So much for Moral Force!" Miss Wilson rose vigorously, exclaiming: "I will soon let her know whether--" She checked herself, and looked round hastily, superstitiously fancying that Agatha might have stolen into the room unobserved.