"No, not I."
"How abominably unfair!" cried Enid. "I thought everybody had to begin with the first question. All the rest of us took so long over it, that we hadn't time for the parsing, and yet we got bad marks, and you, who hadn't even tried, got a good mark. It's just like Miss Rowe's meanness."
"It's really too bad," said Winnie. "Someone ought to go to Miss Rowe and ask her about it."
"Yes, so they ought."
"Who will, then?"
Nobody volunteered for the disagreeable task, and Avis suggested that Winnie herself might be suitable.
"I daren't, after the snubbing I got yesterday," said Winnie. "She wouldn't listen to me."
"I think it would be best if we were to draw lots," said Enid.
"No, don't draw lots, it seems like gambling," said Avis. "Suppose we count as we do for games? Stand in a circle, and I'll begin. Are you ready?"
"The first one who gets 'out' will have to go and tell Miss Rowe what we think, then," agreed Enid.