mother about him when I go home and see what she suggests.

"Hilda's mother has written saying that Hilda is not to spend next hols
with me; which was all arranged before the fuss began. I can't see what
objection she can possibly have. Anyhow it is frightful tyranny and of
course we don't mean to stand it. Selby-Harrison says that perhaps if
you wrote to her she would give in; but I don't want you to do this. I
hate crawling, especially to Hilda's mother and people like that, but if
you like to do it you can. Selby-Harrison says that your mother being an
honourable, will make a lot of difference, though I don't see what that
has to do with me. Still if you think it will be any use there's no
reason why you shouldn't mention it. Hilda has cried buckets full since
the letter came."

I am sorry for Hilda but I shall not write to her mother. I have enough
on my hands without that. Besides, as Lalage says, I do not see the
connection between my mother's position in society and Hilda's mother's
schemes for her daughter's holidays.

"P.S. I hope you got your 8 per cent, all right. I told Selby-Harrison
to send it. We were all three stony at the time and had to borrow it
from another girl who is going in for logic honours, but she's quite
rich, so it doesn't matter. Hilda didn't want to, and said she'd
give her two gold safety pins, which she got last Christmas, if
Selby-Harrison would pawn them for her. But he wouldn't, and I thought
it was hardly worth while for the sake of one and fourpence, besides
making her mother more furious than ever. We ought not to have had to
borrow more than fourpence, for Selby-Harrison had a shilling the night
before, but went and spent it on having a Turkish bath. Rather a rotten
thing to do, I think, when we owed it. But he said he'd forgotten about
the 8 per cent, and had to have the Turkish bath on account of the way
the Prov. talked to him. That was yesterday, of course, not to-day."

I was glad when I read this that I had made out my cheque for the whole
ten pounds. Selby-Harrison will be in a position to pay the other girl
back. She may be quite rich, but she will not like being done out of her
money. The fact that she is going in for logic honours shows me that
she has a precise kind of mind and a good deal of quiet determination.
I should be surprised if she submitted meekly to the loss of one and
fourpence.

"P.P.S. I always forget to tell you that Pussy (Miss Battersby) says
she