"What have you got for No. 5, Vera?" said Kitty Harrison. "Wasn't it a most horribly difficult one?"
"Dreadful! I couldn't do it at all. I got my statements in such a muddle, I had to leave it."
"What's your answer, Muriel?" asked Cissie Gardiner.
"270 bales of silk, but I don't believe it's right."
"Most of the others have 340 bales."
"Which others?"
"Why, Patty Hirst, and Beatrice Wynne, and Ella Johnson. Patty has most of her sums right, I think."
"She may well have," sneered Maud Greening, "if she copies other people's," she added under her breath.
"I don't even look at anyone else when I'm working," observed Muriel, pointedly.
"We've never had cheating in the Upper Fourth before," put in Vera Clifford.