No girl in the form had ever had so severe punishment.
"Oh, Miss Strong!" she protested hotly.

"_Five!_ I haven't really done anything more than heaps of the others.

It's not fair!" Now if Ingred had really hoped to get her sentence remitted she could not have done a more absolutely suicidal thing.

A mistress may overlook some faults, but she will not stand "cheek." The discipline of the form was at stake, and Miss Strong was not a mistress to be trifled with.

Her little figure absolutely quivered with dignity, and though physically she was shorter than her pupil, morally she seemed to tower yards.