Bernadine, Rhoda, and herself were kept behind, when Prep was over, to receive a short but stringent lecture from Miss Lambton on the need of punctuality, and so did not go out to dress with the rest. But the attention which Joey was endeavouring to give to Miss Lambton was much interfered with by conjectures, and scattered altogether by a sound that came a minute or two later down to Classroom Remove II. B—a sound of cheering.
Louder it grew and louder, as girls came pouring in from their different classrooms.
"What can be happening?" Miss Lambton interrupted herself to ask.
The three sinners took the question for a signal of dismissal. They ran.
A great throng of girls, growing larger every moment, was congregated in the hall, cheering wildly. Squeezing past smaller girls, and under the elbows of seniors, Joey arrived somehow in the front rank.
A large notice faced her—a notice on which the ink was hardly dry:
"In consequence of information received, Miss Conyngham withdraws the ban on Redlands."