"Giving her a bit of my mind. I don't like her."
"I like her better than Susan," whispered Jane in response. "Well, here we are," she added as they arrived at the well-known gates, "and I have kept my word: no one has spoken to anyone, or done a single thing that Miss Peacock would disapprove of."
"Oh, haven't they?" said Star to herself; but she was silent.
Just before they all went in to dinner Susan ran up to Maud. She took her friend's hand and spoke eagerly.
"Have you done it?" she whispered.
"Yes; but I don't think I have mended matters."
"What do you mean?"
"Star saw me do it."
"Maud! Well, you really are the most awkward, most incapable—Oh, you are a terrible girl!"
"I denied it, but she stuck to it. I just got her not to tell Jane Price, but she means to have it out with us both this afternoon. We are to meet her in the fourth class boudoir, and she means to be there alone. I never saw Star so determined. I expect we shall have a fight."