"Why?" asked Honor in astonishment, for the hour and a half in the playing-fields was as strict a part of the college curriculum as the morning lessons.
"Because it's the Health Testing."
"What's that?"
"A kind of medical examination," explained Dorothy Arkwright. "We always have it at the beginning of each term, to make sure that, as Miss Cavendish expresses it, we are 'physically fit for the duties of school life'."
"Oh!" said Honor, looking rather aghast at the prospect.
"You needn't pull such a long face, Paddy," said Lettice. "We none of us mind; indeed, we think it's a joke."
"We have a lady doctor, you see," said Ruth, "and she's so jolly, she keeps one laughing all the time."
"What does she do?"
"Oh! weighs us, and sounds our lungs, and tests our eyes, and measures our chests."
"You'll have to draw a deep breath, and to put out your tongue, and to let her look at your teeth," added Lettice.