For a brief interval no one spoke.

Then Elfreda said smoothly, "As we appear to understand that point, go on, Grace." "Give me my copy," reiterated Kathleen sullenly, before Grace had a chance to continue.
"Miss West," returned Grace very quietly, "Miss Briggs and I have read the copy which Miss Briggs found, and I have come here to say that you will be doing not only yourself but a great many other girls an injustice if you make public Miss Thayer's plans for the girls who remain at Overton for the holidays.

Miss Thayer wishes the girls to feel perfectly independent in this matter, and whatever she contributes privately toward it is strictly her own affair.

If this article appears on the school and college page, some of these girls are sure to hear of it and feel humiliated and resentful, particularly if the rest of the article is as callously cruel as its beginning." Kathleen West laughed disagreeably.

"That is not my affair.