CHAPTER VIII.
An Unpleasant Experience The girls filed out from the hockey ground as speedily as possible.
There was a train due from Grovebury in about a quarter of an hour.

They walked to the station in groups, discussing details of the match as they went.

Ingred, Beatrice, and Verity happened to be blocked at the exit by the Clintonian team, and were obliged to wait some minutes before they could pass, and when at last they were through the gate, all their own schoolfellows were disappearing up the road.
"We needn't run after them--I believe we've plenty of time," said Verity.

"We can almost see the station from here.

I say, aren't you fearfully hungry?
I'm literally starving.