e'll lay all the things
on the seat, and dust the desk inside before we put them in."

"I wouldn't do it for anybody but you," said Enid, allowing herself to
be persuaded.

Beatrice soon emptied her desk, and it did not take very long to arrange
the books in their new quarters. The alteration was effected almost
before Enid realized it, and the storm which Patty had dreaded for her
friend's sake was avoided. Nevertheless, Patty was not easy about Enid.

"She'll be getting into serious trouble some day," she thought. "I wish
she would behave better in Miss Rowe's classes. Things can't always go
on like this, and if Miss Rowe were to tell her to report herself in the
library, I don't believe even Enid would like to face Miss Lincoln and
find her really angry. I know I shouldn't."

It seemed no use for Patty to try remonstrances. Enid only laughed, and
would not listen to her.

"Patty, you're a dear!" she declared. "I love you the best of any girl I
know, but even you can't persuade me to like Miss Rowe. It's no use.
We're flint and steel, or frost and fire; or oil and water, or anything
else you can name that oughtn't to go together, and won't mix. The very
tone of her voice annoys me."

"Why should it?"

"It's so prim. The way she pokes out her chin and says 'Enid!' is most
disagreeable. It always makes me want to be naughty. Yes, it does;
don't shake your head. I've told you a hundred times I'm not good like
you, and I simply can't be. I'm like a bottle of soda-water with the
cork popped, and I have to fizz over sometimes."

It was unfortunate that Enid should have taken such a dislike to her
teacher, for she kept up a state of ill-feeling among the girls which
otherwise would probably have died away. Absurd trifles were magnified
and made much of, and ridiculous grievances were nursed and cherished.
One day Miss Rowe set the upper division a grammar exercise consisting
of two questions. The first was long and very difficult; it was on the
origin of the English language, and required a certain knowledge of
various Anglo-Saxon roots, a list of words derived from ancient British,
and some account of the Norman-French period. The second and shorter
question was simply a sentence to be parsed. No one in the class had a
good memory for derivations. Fourteen out of the fifteen members spent
the half-hour racking their brains and biting the ends of their pens in
vain endeavours to complete their answers to Question 1,