"I'd punish her very severely," said Miss Patience. "I am sure punishment is what she wants. She ought to be broken in.""O Bridget!" exclaimed the little girls, starting back in affright."And so do I"—"And I"—cried both Ruth and Olive.
Janet was forced to comply, and Dorothy exclaimed eagerly:
She scrutinized Olive's face now, a slightly satirical expression hovering round her somewhat thin lips."I know," echoed Janet, a queer angry light filling her eyes for a minute. "Oh, dear! oh, dear! What with our examinations and the Fancy Fair, and all this worry about the new girl, life scarcely seems worth living—it really doesn't."
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"Janet, I wish you would not speak in that bitter way.""Never mind, it is the correct thing to do. In a matter of this kind we are nothing if we are not businesslike. Now, who is coming to interrupt us?"
Mrs. Freeman could scarcely restrain her impatience.
"I never knew before that I had an enemy," said Janet, in her guarded voice.
"Well," said Janet, "if you insist on spoiling everything, girls, you must. You know what Evelyn is."
Dorothy ran away at once, and Mrs. Freeman walked down the garden in the direction where she had just seen a white dress disappearing.