"Look here, it's jolly decent of you, but it doesn't matter about changing, really," Joey blurted out.
Noreen grinned engagingly.
"You silly cuckoo, don't you see I want to bag your tip of 'First Bath.'"
But Joey knew that wasn't the real reason; she began to like Noreen.
CHAPTER VII
The Violet Handkerchief
A select committee consisting of Ingrid Latimer, Freda Martin, Joan Chichester, and Miss Lambton, the assistant games-mistress, tried the new girls for hockey that afternoon, playing them with a selection from the second hockey-team.
Joey enjoyed herself, though she had not played since she was quite small and a day-girl at a school in Hertfordshire. Her running and her passing were both commended, the one by Ingrid and the other by Miss Lambton; and she was dreadfully disappointed when, at four o'clock, Miss Lambton looked at her watch, and said something in an undertone to Ingrid. Then she called out:
"Jocelyn Graham is to go indoors now. Change your hockey things, Jocelyn," she added, "and you can ask for a book from the Lower School Library."