Although the booming sound of the great gong filled the air, the supper to which the head girls of the school were now going was a very simple affair. It consisted of milk placed in great jugs at intervals down the long table, of fruit both cooked and uncooked, and large plates of bread and butter.CHAPTER II. THE NEW GIRL.
Ruth and Olive slept in the back part of the room. They had a cubicle each, of course, but they had not Dorothy's taste, and their little bedrooms had a dowdy effect beside hers.
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Should she run away altogether? Should she walk to Eastcliff and take the next train to London, and then, trusting to chance, and to the kindness of strangers, endeavor to find her way back to the dear and loving shores of the old country, and so back again to the beloved home?"Why, Dorothy Collingwood; she has gone over to the ranks of the enemy."[Pg 72]"It is delightful to have you back again," said Mrs. Freeman, bending over her pupil and kissing her. "And really, Evelyn, you look almost well. Oh, my dear child, what a fright I got about you last night."
"Bridget, do look," said Mrs. Freeman; "you have trodden on that lovely bud!"
"O Janey," exclaimed two of the other girls in a breath, "a committee does sound so absurdly formal."
"My attainments! Good gracious, I haven't any!"