The school was thus left without a teacher.

On entering it, Egeria found all the children in their places and at work.

They had looked at the time-table, had chosen some of the older scholars to take the lower classes, and had settled down happily and in perfect order.

This incident proves to demonstration that the _morale_ of the school has somehow or other been carried far beyond the limits of what is usually understood by discipline.

I have seen historical scenes acted with much vigour by some of the children in the first class, and applauded with equal vigour by their class-mates, while all the time the children in the second class, who were drawing flowers in the same room, never lifted their eyes from their desks.