"Surely I can make an innocent remark without you beginning to preach to me like this! I call it cheek!" Verity did not reply.

She had had too many squabbles with Beatrice in the past to want to begin a fresh campaign on the first day of a new term.

She discreetly pretended not to hear, and addressing Francie Hall, launched into an account of her doings during the holidays.
"We're moving out to Repworth at the September quarter," she concluded.
"And it's too far for me to bicycle in to school every day, so I've started as a boarder at the hostel.

I shall go home for week-ends, though.

Nora Clifford and Fil Trevor are there too.