Talk of homesickness! You should have seen me my first week here.

I brought four dozen pocket-handkerchiefs to school with me and I used them all.
It's not good enough! Prefects, did you say?
Humph! I don't call Rachel exactly laid out for this job.

Bring your biscuits to the 'Grotto' at interval, and we'll have a powwow about it." There was a twenty-minute mid-morning break between classes, during which the girls ate lunch and amused themselves as they pleased in the house or grounds.

The biscuits, three apiece, were laid out in rows on the dining-room table together with each pupil's glass of milk.

As Irene ran in to take her portion she heard a scrimmage going on at the other end of the room.