She waited until the cold and her fear of being discovered spying forced her to creep upstairs, ashamed of having enjoyed a silly entertainment, and of conniving at a breach of the rules rather than face a fresh quarrel with Agatha.
There was one particular in which matters between Agatha and the college discipline did not go on exactly as before.

Although she had formerly supplied a disproportionately large number of the confessions in the fault book, the entry which had nearly led to her expulsion was the last she ever made in it.

Not that her conduct was better--it was rather the reverse.

Miss Wilson never mentioned the matter, the fault book being sacred from all allusion on her part.

But she saw that though Agatha would not confess her own sins, she still assisted others to unburden their consciences.