It was an amateur team of enthusiasts, who, debarred from playing any longer for their school, had established a club of their own.

They had sent a challenge to Grovebury College, and it had been accepted.
"Saturday morning's a weird time for a match!" said Blossom, re-reading the letter to her chums.

"But their captain says it's the only time they can get their field.

It's used by another club in the afternoons, so she's fixed eleven o'clock." "It suits me rather decently," said Janie Potter.

"I'm going out to tea in the afternoon, so I couldn't have come if the match had been at three.