Kate helped her in this.
"You can't have half unpacked," she said. "You will have nice time to put all your things in order between now and supper; run off and do it, and pray remember this is your last evening of leisure. You will have to write résumés of all your lectures to-morrow night, and won't, for the next week or fortnight, have time or thoughts to give to anything but your studies."
"And will it be better after the first week or fortnight?" asked Molly.
Kate laughed.
"It may take longer than that," she replied; "the whole thing depends upon yourself. If you are quick and adaptable, you will soon get into the ways of the place. You will begin to understand the professors, and to know that mademoiselle wishes to have one thing remembered, fräulein another, Miss Shaw another. You will begin, in short, to classify, and to make the sort of notes which will be useful to you; but for the first fortnight or three weeks, I may as well tell you at once that you will be in hopeless hot water over your notes."
"Oh, Kate, you quite frighten me!" exclaimed Molly.
"I am sorry, but I must tell you the truth. Isn't it so, Hester?" she called out.
Hester, who was passing through the hall, came up to Kate's side.
"Is what true?" she said, with a laugh.