"Fair?" Clara echoed, bitterly. "Well!"
And to all my readers I can but repeat the last words of gentle Clara—
Fare-well!
APPENDIX.
"A knot!" said Alice. "Oh, do let me help to undo it!"
ANSWERS TO KNOT I.
Problem.—"Two travellers spend from 3 o'clock till 9 in walking along a level road, up a hill, and home again: their pace on the level being 4 miles an hour, up hill 3, and down hill 6. Find distance walked: also (within half an hour) time of reaching top of hill."
Answer.—"24 miles: half-past 6."