That the remove was not Georgina’s fault, and therefore that it was scarcely fair to visit the headmistress’s act upon her innocent head, did not enter into their calculations.
Where they consider their rights are concerned schoolgirls rarely hold mercy before justice.
Meantime Georgina, who had gone to break the important tidings to the Upper Fourth, did not find her old friends as responsive as she had expected.
They received her communication with marked coldness.
“Why should you have been moved up, Georgina Gascoyne, and not Daisy, or Aileen, or I?” enquired Alma Richardson, with a distinctly aggrieved note in her voice.
“Miss Duff always favoured Georgina!” said Monica Dawkins enviously.