"I think I answered nearly all the questions," was the reply.
"And the poem?"
"Yes, I did it."
Julia looked rather surprised, but she said nothing, though several of the girls were loud in their exclamations of wonder that Ruth should even have attempted it.
She listened rather impatiently to their remarks, for already she felt ashamed of the advantage she had taken, and would gladly have seized the paper upon which her translation was written and thrown it upon the fire.
But it had gone out of her possession and was hers no longer.
CHAPTER XVI.
A DOWNWARD STEP.
"I can't think what has happened to Ruth, she is not at all like her usual self," remarked Ernest that evening.