sound of their moving was all that was heard in the class-room. No word
was spoken. The work continued for over an hour. Then one member, having
finished, arose and, placing her papers on the table which stood near the
front, quitted the room. One by one, as they completed the examination,
the others followed her example.

Elizabeth was among the last to leave. Her face was beaming with
satisfaction at the spirit in which her plan had been carried out. In the
main hall she met Dr. Kitchell.

"The girls are all through," she exclaimed, a thrill of pleasureable
excitement showing in her voice. "There was not a word spoken, nor
communication of any sort."

"It is truly the only way to conduct an examination," he answered, turning
to walk with her down the hall to the dormitory. "The credit should be
given to you, Miss Hobart. This police-duty, which so insulted you last
fall, was not pleasant work for a teacher; but custom makes slaves of us
all. Nothing will please us better than knowing that Exeter can have
honest examinations without faculty supervision. We have wished for just
such conditions as this, but they seemed rather to be dreamed of than
realized. An instructor can do little in such matters. The desire must
come from the students. We give you, Miss Hobart, the credit of this
change."

"I do not know that I should have it," was the reply. "It is not that I
was more sensitive or had higher ideals than the other girls. It was that
they were accustomed to such supervision since the days when they entered
school, while it was all new to me. And being new, it impressed me
greatly. You see," she added, looking up at Dr. Kitchell as though she did
not wish him to misinterpret her leaving his class-room that day of the
first examination, "outside of class, you would not have thought of such a
thing as questioning our word or our honesty, yet by your way of
conducting an examination, you did both."

"That is true in part. I questioned the honor of some. _Class honor_, I
should say. But there is yet another side to that. Students who would
scorn to be other than strictly fair and upright outside of class have
stooped to all manner of subterfuge to pass an examination. All sense of
moral responsibility evaporated the instant they took that little slip of
printed questions in their hands."

"So I have learned," said Elizabeth. She could not refrain from smiling.
Dr. Kitchell had a jocular manner. His words, even in th