“I kept expecting burglars all last night, but they didn’t come.
“October 1.
“I want to tell Mrs. Abbott about the peddler, he acted so queer; but Edna says I’m a fool to bring down a scolding and perhaps a punishment on myself and her too.
“October 2.
“I don’t believe I will keep intimate with Edna, she seems to do so many wrong kind of things. I am going to ask Miss Blake to let me sit on the other side of the study-table, so I won’t be next to her any more.
“October 3.
“Maybe I judged Edna too harshly. She came into my room to-day, and after she’d looked around a minute she exclaimed, in the most earnest way, ‘O, you dear, lovely Katie, if you could only know how I love you and how I admire you!’ Then she told me that from the very first she had thought I was the very nicest, smartest, and prettiest girl in the whole school. It seems silly to write down praises of myself, but it is perfectly sweet to have a girl think so much of you. I have made up my mind it would be unkind to change my seat and leave Edna; so I sha’n’t speak to Miss Blake about it.
“October 4.
“Knew my history, but missed in classic literature. I never do remember whether Juno was a man or a woman.”