"Only about half."
"I think we had better come and help you, then."
"Better finish our own first!" grunted Lettice, for which remark she was promptly snubbed by her elder sister.
"Miss Maitland will be up at eight o'clock to look at our drawers," said Chatty Burns. "She'll expect you to have everything put away, and your coats and dresses hung in the wardrobe."
"We have to be so fearfully tidy here!" sighed Adeline Vaughan. "A warden comes round each morning, and woe betide you if you leave hairs in your brush, or have forgotten to fold your nightdress!"
"It's just as bad at St. Hilary's," said Madge.
"And worse at St. Bride's," added Ruth Latimer.
"My father wanted me to be at the School House," said Honor, "but Miss Cavendish wrote that it was full, so I was entered at St. Chad's instead."
"Yes, you generally need to have your name down for two years before you can get a vacancy at the School House," said Dorothy Arkwright. "It's the popular favourite with parents, because Miss Cavendish herself is the Head; but really, St. Chad's is far nicer. We all stand up for our own house, and I know you'll like it."
"There's the tea-bell! Come along! we must go at once," interrupted Chatty Burns.