“I would if I could,” she replied; “but I don’t know any more about it than the man in the moon.”
“Now, Flora,” said Susan, “of course you do. It’s just like the fourteenth that we had yesterday, that so many of us missed; and you know you did them all.”
“I beg your pardon: I don’t know any such thing.”
“You told Miss Forester you had done them all, at any rate.”
“No, I didn’t.”
“Why, Florence!” exclaimed Sallie.
“If you didn’t, I’m very much mistaken,” said Susan.
“Then you are very much mistaken. I will tell you just how it was. Miss Forester asked me if I had correct answers to all the questions. I said I had; and I told the truth; for I had got a key and copied every answer as correctly as possible.”
The girls said not a word, but were astonished at the coolness of their companion’s explanation of her answer.
Florence was the first to break the silence.