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A Chance for Retaliation _Frontispiece_ 146

Honor Concludes the Purchase of Firefly 33

An Interview With Miss Cavendish 54

The Liberation of Pete 96

An Unlucky Escapade 209

"Startled by the voices, she jumped up" 253

THE NEW GIRL AT ST. CHAD'S

CHAPTER I

Honor Introduces Herself

"Any new girls?"

It was Madge Summers who asked the question, seated on the right-hand
corner of Maisie Talbot's bed, munching caramels. It was a very small
bed, but at that moment it managed to accommodate no less than seven
of Maisie's most particular friends, who were closely watching the
progress of her unpacking, and discussing the latest school news,
interspersed with remarks on her belongings.

Maisie extricated herself from the depths of her box, and handed a pile
of stockings to Lettice, her younger sister.

"What's the use of asking me?" she replied. "Our cab only drove up half
an hour ago. I feel almost new myself yet."

"So do I, and horribly in the blues too," said Pauline Reynolds. "It's
always a wrench to leave home. I'm perfectly miserable for at least
three days at the beginning of each term. I feel as if----"

"Oh, don't all begin to expatiate about your feelings!" broke in Chatty
Burns. "We know Pauline's symptoms only too well: the first day she
shows aggressively red eyes and a damp pocket-handkerchief; the second
day she writes lengthy letters home, begging to be allowed to return
immediately and have lessons with a private governess; the third day
she wanders about, trying to get sympathy from anyone who is
weak-minded enough to listen to her, till in desperation somebody drags
her into the playground, and makes her have a round at hockey. That
cheers her up, and she begins to think life isn't quite such a desert.
By the fourth morning she has recovered her spirits, and come to the
conclusion that Chessington College is a very decent kind of place; and
she begins to be alarmed lest her mother, on the strength of the
pathetic letter, should have decided to let her leave at once, and
should have already engaged a private governess."

"You're most unsympathetic, Chatty!" said Pauline, smiling in spite of
herself. "You don't know what it is to be home-sick."

"I wouldn't p