“A chit like you to be brought into the Fifth!
“Oh!”
“What a shame!”
“We shan’t stand it!” rose in such a chorus from all sides that Georgina took the opportunity to make her escape and go to the dressing-room
for her lunch.
The interval was only ten minutes, and she wished both to break the news to her old classmates and to fetch some necessary books from her
former desk before the bell rang.
The other members of the Fifth lingered behind in perturbed consultation.
They considered they had a just and most pressing grievance.
In all the annals of the school, such a case had never occurred before.