"I don't think so," replied Sylvia. "But Mother was going to send some of my clothes afterwards. I came away in rather a hurry."
"You're late though," said Connie Camden. "It's nearly three weeks since we started the term. We came back on the 14th of September."
"Why didn't you come then?" asked Nina Forster.
"I don't know. Father only decided to send me a week ago."
"Well, you can try to catch us up, but we've done twenty pages of the new history," said Marian Woodhouse, "and read the first canto of Marmion. We shall have to tell you the story."
"I know it, thank you," replied Sylvia. "I had it with my governess at home."
"Oh!" said Marian, looking rather disgusted. "But I don't suppose you took any of the notes, and Miss Arkwright explains it quite differently from anyone else. What sums are you at?"
"Weights and measures," said Sylvia.
"Why, we did those in the baby class! We're doing fractions now."
"We've only just begun them," said Linda. "Don't bother about lessons, Marian. We've barely ten minutes before prep, and I want to show Sylvia her locker."