"Are you the young lady who missed time by being sick?" he asked.
"Yes, sir."
"Umph!" said the examiner non-committally.
Ethel and Gertrude waited for Sarah outside the door, and walked across the campus with her. As in a dream she heard them discussing their questions.
"The two battles of Saratoga were on September 19 and October 7, 1777," said Gertrude. "Gates was in command of the Americans and Burgoyne of the British."
"Yes," answered Ethel. "And the Treaty of Ghent was the one which ended the War of 1812, wasn't it?"
"Were those your questions?" asked Sarah wearily.
"Yes, what were yours like?"
"Ach, I don't know. 'I want,'"—she laughingly quoted a jingle which Miss Ellingwood often repeated,—
"'I want to have my supper,
And I want to go to bed,'