“But how awful it would have been if Miss Hull had separated us,” she said in the darkness.
“She couldn’t have done that. No one ever can,” Phyllis replied very positively, but very sleepily.
“Never!”
[CHAPTER IV—The Rivalry of the Wings]
“All aboard for the grand tour of inspection,” Gladys announced.
School for the day was over. All through a confusing morning the twins had been shown from one classroom to another where they had met their teachers. There had been no attempt at lessons, but the girls had been encouraged to talk and give their opinions on the different studies. As a result of this, some shifting had been necessary. In English, one of the new girls named Ethel Rivers had been dropped to the class below. Because from her hasty remarks it was easy to see that she knew very little of literature. She protested, but Miss Slocum stood firm. The twins acquitted themselves well. They sat together and none of the teachers could tell them apart, for they did not know about the tiny crescent pin that Phyllis was faithfully wearing. But unlike Miss Baxter at Miss Harding’s school, the faculty at Hilltop rather enjoyed their own confusion.
Now they were free for the day, and Sally with the able assistance of Prue and Gladys was waiting to show the twins over the school and the grounds.
“You’ve seen the classroom,” Sally began, “and you know about the assembly hall.”
“Oh, Sally, if you’re not going to do better than that I’m going to play guide,” Gladys protested. “The idea of calling a ballroom the assembly hall! It loses all its romance.”
“And besides, Miss Hull doesn’t like it,” Prue added.