It was missed and passed on again and again, for nobody could guess it.
Midget and King both shook their heads, and this gave them each their second bad score.
It came round to the leaders, and as they both missed, it gave Mr. Henderson his third score, and put him out, but gave Miss Merington only her first score for missing.
As no one could guess it, the answer was told, “Mountain Ash.”
Everybody agreed it was easy, after all, and the game went on with the few valiant strugglers that were left.
King couldn’t think of “Elder” as an answer to, “What must everybody become before he gets old?” So he went ruefully to his seat.
On and on went the questions, until, at last, only Miss Merington and Marjorie were standing.
Marjorie had two bad marks, and Miss Merington only one, but the fact that Midget was still there at all, was due to the fact that most of her questions had chanced to be easy ones. There had been many given out that she couldn’t answer, but they hadn’t happened to come to her.
But these are the fortunes of war, and Marjorie was glad she had escaped so well.
After several that they guessed correctly, Mr. Abercrombie said, “What is the most kissable tree?”