"I'm not surprised you wanted to hide it."
"Then she said she should get her aunt to suspend the whole class; so I had to tell her it was me, and they shut me up in Miss Appleby's room."
"Quite right," said Mrs. Gano, backing up the authorities as usual.
"Oh yes," said Val, bitterly, "that's what Miss Beach thought too; she said it was the only thing to do with a wild beast."
"She didn't use those words!"
The eyebrows suddenly shot up again.
"Yes'm, she did. Ask Julia Otway. Miss Beach'd say anything. Why, she was educated at a mixed school."
"You don't mean blacks and whites together?"
"Yes'm—Oberlin."