"Did you flunk?"
"I don't believe so; it was easy."
"Easy!"
"I thought so, anyway. I answered them all, and they seemed to work out right."
"Hum."
"What's the trouble?"
"Oh, nothing, only I flunked."
"How do you know?"
"Because I just wrote numbers."
"Oh, well, cheer up. Maybe they were the right numbers." Janet was determined to be cheerful. She had found the examination much easier than she had expected and she felt reasonably sure that she had passed.