Saturday at Alton College, nominally a half holiday, was really a whole one.

Classes in gymnastics, dancing, elocution, and drawing were held in the morning.

The afternoon was spent at lawn tennis, to which lady guests resident in the neighborhood were allowed to bring their husbands, brothers, and fathers--Miss Wilson being anxious to send her pupils forth into the world free from the uncouth stiffness of schoolgirls unaccustomed to society.
Late in October came a Saturday which proved anything but a holiday for Miss Wilson.

At half-past one, luncheon being over, she went out of doors to a lawn that lay between the southern side of the college and a shrubbery.

Here she found a group of girls watching Agatha and Jane, who were dragging a roller over the grass.