Are there any other impertinent questions you'd like to ask?
Don't all speak at once, please!"
And Ingred, having laced both shoes, got up, seized her pile of books,
and, turning her back on her form-mates, stalked away without a good-by.
She knew she had been rude and ungracious, but she felt that if she had
stopped another moment the tears that were welling into her eyes would
have overflowed. Ingred had many good points, but she was a remarkably
proud girl. She could not bear her schoolfellows to think she had come
down in the world. She had thrown out so many hints last term about the
renewed glories of Rotherwood, that it was certainly humiliating to have
to acknowledge that all the happy expectations had come to nothing. On
the reputation of Rotherwood both she and Quenrede had held their heads
high in the school; she wondered if her position would be the same, now
that everybody knew the truth.
As a matter of fact, most of the girls giggled as she went out through
the cloak-room door.
"My lady's in a temper!" exclaimed Francie.
"Lemons and vinegar!" hinnied Jess.
"Why did she fly out like that?" asked Beatrice.
"Well, really, Beatrice Jackson, after all the stupid things you said,
anybody would fly out, I should think," commented Verity Richmond. "I'm
sorry for Ingred. I'd heard the Saxons can't go back to their old house.
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