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The new girl stopped with her mouth puckered into a
button. A look of consternation spread over her face, then
passed into a smile.
'I was told I'd have to be jolly, careful and mind my
p's and q's here! she remarked cheerily. "I have been just
five minutes in school and my first impressions are that
Miss Hopkins is concentrated essence of fuss. Am I near?"
"Not so far oft“ laughed Laura. "They can change
characters sometimes though I've seen Miss Hopkins
ride her high horse and on the other hand, I've seen
Miss Thompson more ruffled than a headmistress has any
business to be. You'll soon get to know them."
'I suppose I shall, whether I shall altogether like them
is another question.'
"You'll like Silverside!' gushed Imma. 'It's a perfectly
delightful school - at least it used to be. We're afraid it is
going to be utterly and entirely spoilt now.'
"Why?'
Because it's being invaded. It used to be quite small
and select, more boarders than day girls, you know. And
now we've just had a horrible shock -
another day school is being plumped upon us - a school
we've always despised. We've too indignant for words
Evelyn, who was fumbling with the lock of her box,
lifted her head.
Don't you like them coming?'
"Like them! Impossible! How can you ask such a
question? We've always looked down on them so fearfully
Why, if we met any of them in the street, we used just to
stare straight through them, as if they didn't exist. They
wore dark-blue coats and horrid stiff kind of hats with
coloured bands, for all the world like an institution. I tell
you we simply wouldn't have touched them.
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