er hard you tried."

"It happened to Janie Henderson, though, in her first term. How little
did you weigh, Moonie?"

"I'm sure I forget," returned Janie, who had joined the group.

"But you had to be fed up on cream and beaten eggs and all kinds of
things. I remember how we envied you."

"Are you weighed in stones or pounds here?" asked Honor.

"In stones. It's very puzzling to some of the Colonials, because
they're accustomed to American machines that register in pounds. They
have to do a sum before they can calculate the result."

"When does this exam. come off?"

"Some time this afternoon. We go up in relays. It's St. Chad's turn
to-day. On Wednesday it was the School House, and on Thursday, St.
Aldwyth's. Then on Saturday it will be St. Hilary's and St. Bride's. It
takes nearly a week to get through the whole school."

The medical examination was to be conducted at the sanatorium, and Dr.
Mary Forbes was already installed there, and busily employed, when
Honor and her classmates arrived.

"She begins with monitresses, and then works downwards," explained
Dorothy. "I don't expect it will be our turn for half an hour yet, but
we're obliged to stay here, to be ready in case we're called."

"It's not nearly so alarming as the dentist's," said Ruth.

The waiting-room was full of girls, who were beguiling the time with
jokes and banter and lively chatter. Lettice, Ruth, and Dorothy soon
mingled in the crowd, and forgot all about their Irish companion until
the voice of Vivian Holmes was heard announcing:

"Next--Ruth Latimer, Chatty Burns, Madge Summers, and Honor
Fitzgerald."

"Where's Honor?" asked Lettice. "She was here just now."

"Why, she's there!--actually outside in the garden," replied Dorothy.

"What's she doing, dodging about the rockery?"

"Someone call her--quick!"

Honor came running in, looking rather flushed and hot, and with a
curious, bulgy appearance about her blouse.

"Where have you been?" demanded Ruth, but her question went unanswered,
for Vivian whisked the four girls with scant ceremony into Dr. Mary
Forbes's consulting-room. Time was too precious to be wasted, and the
monitress was something of a disciplinarian. Honor sat watching with
deep interest while first Ruth, then Chatty, and finally Madge were
duly examined and passed as "sound". She was called then, and after her
name and age had been entered on her chart, and her height taken, she
was told to step on to the weighi