“O, yes. But I find that it will be about as expensive as buying a new clock and I’m hoping that it will take a notion some day to run as it should. You see I’m attached to that clock!”
“So am I,” declared Cathalina. “It’s the very first alarm clock I ever got up by.”
“If you will cling to this timepiece, then, as it is,” said Isabel, “why not make out a schedule and hang it up, so any of us who happen to be here, or who dash madly in, in the course of our wild careers, will not be misled?”
“Very good, Miss Hunt. I like your idea. Cathalina, you are the artist, will you make out the schedule?”
“I’ll put one up tomorrow some time and illuminate in color if you like.”
“Just put at the top ‘Procrastination is the thief of time,’ please, for me,” said Betty.
“By the way, Betty,” said Isabel, whose conscience seemed to have stopped hurting at visiting during study hours. “It looks as if our trip with the girls to the cave will have to be put off indefinitely, doesn’t it? Did you notice what Miss Randolph said this morning?”
Betty and Cathalina both nodded. Hilary and Lilian had evidently not applied Miss Randolph’s remarks as interesting them particularly. Isabel struck an attitude and with ridiculous gestures of which Miss Randolph could never have been guilty, repeated nearly word for word what the principal had announced:
“‘I understand that one or two beach parties have been held beyond permitted limits and it occurs to me that some of you may not be familiar with our rules on that point. Greycliff grounds proper, which include the grove only as far as the ‘high hill,’ are the limits, with the exception of the beach as far as the breakwater on the side toward the Village of Greycliff and the river on the other side. The beach in recreation hours is always guarded during the season. In winter, however, special permission may be obtained for any kind of an excursion. There will be the regular winter sports which will occupy all the time you have to spare from your studies. It will always be announced when the ice on the river is safe for skating. No girl is to attempt it otherwise.’”
“How do you remember like that, Isabel? That is almost exactly what she said.”