Finally after an hour, during which time the principal made threats of expulsion, the girl finally broke down and confessed.
In the meantime Bet had gone to the phone and called Miss Owens and Kit, according to the understanding with Mr. Sills.
It was Kit who begged for Edith. "Don't expel her, Mr. Sills. I'm sure she won't do such a thing again." Kit even objected to a class apology for the girl but Mr. Sills was firm in this.
And when school opened the next day Edith had to face the class and say that she had put the book into Kit's desk in order to get her into trouble.
Kit was thankful that the suspicion against her was gone, but she pitied Edith.
"I don't understand her!" exclaimed the girl to her friends later. "I'm anxious to be friends and she won't let me."
Several days later when she met Edith face to face in the dressing room, Edith exclaimed: "Get out of my sight, I hate you!"