"Oh, Blue Bonnet, you couldn't have helped laughing to save you—it was perfectly killing. Fraulein was so angry she just tore round. She threatened to have us all expelled—disgraced—everything you could think of! At least we took it for that—it was all in German—every word."
"And Miss North has taken away all my privileges for two weeks—two whole weeks! That means that I can't go to the party the girls are getting up for the twenty-second, or anything, and I'm just not going to stand it. I'm going home! You see if I don't—this time!"
She got up and began hauling more things from the closet.
"No, you're not," Blue Bonnet said gently, putting her arm round her. "You're not going to do anything of the kind, you know you're not. You'd be ashamed to. It would look as if you were afraid to face the music—and you can—you must!"
It was Mary's turn to look amazed.
"That's not why I'm going," she said. "I'm not afraid of punishment."
"That's the way it would look."
"I don't care how it would look. I wouldn't be here to see anyway."
"Then you haven't any pride."
"I guess I have as much pride as you have, or any one else!"