Of the two higher grades every girl responded to her name except Tavia.
Then the principal said:
“I have been notified that a number of you young ladles visited a fortune teller last evening for the purpose of having your fortunes told. Now, let everyone who was off these grounds after tea time stand up.”
Poor Edna was with the “standers.”
“Please, Miss Eastbrook, mark these names as I put the question,” said Mrs. Pangborn.
Then came the examination. Ten of the girls answered to the question: “Did you go to that place to have your fortune told?”
When this query was put to Edna, of course, she answered in the negative. Dorothy was greatly relieved, for, in spite of Tavia’s affirmation, she feared the girls had been up to some trick.
The affair was one of the most serious of escapades that had ever occurred at Glenwood, and, when Jean Faval and her crowd owned to the offence, the face of Mrs. Pangborn might easily be read as suppressing deep indignation.
“The young ladies will go to their rooms,” she said, “and positively remain there until this matter is settled.”
That of course meant the culprits—all others were exonerated.