"Yes, indeed, there are to be two prizes: one for the girl who has tried the hardest, and the other for the one who has succeeded the best."
"Which will get them, Miss Bourne?"
"Ah, how can I tell?"
"I don't see how any one can tell; no one is watching us all the time."
"Some one does take account, Inez, of almost everything that you say and do."
"Oh, dear, I hate to be spied on," grumbled Concetta.
"No one is spying, I can assure you; but there are certain things that we notice carefully, and you have all been here so long that we know pretty well just what you are likely to do."
"I expect some one marks everything down in a book, like they used to at school?" Maggie put this as a question, but Julia did not reply directly.
"All the advice I can give you is to do as well as you can, and whether things are written in a book or not you will fare very well—at least, you will all fare alike."
"What will the prizes be, Miss Bourne?"