was harder to please as
regarded both lessons and conduct. Gipsy often felt she was treated
unfairly, and received more than her due share of blame for any little
occurrence that cropped up.

A great many small things contributed to make her feel her position. Her
morning glass of milk, which all the boarders and some of the day girls
took in the pantry at eleven o'clock, was knocked off, as were all
concerts and lectures where there was a charge for admission. It was not
pleasant, when the other boarders were taken into Greyfield, to have to
stay behind for the sake of the price of a ticket and a tram fare. She
had long ago spent all her pocket-money, and there was no more
forthcoming. Not only was she denied such luxuries as chocolates, but
she was not even able to pay her subscription to the Guild, which, by
the new arrangement, was due at the beginning of each term. The
Committee, who knew the reason and sympathized with her, ignored the
matter; but poor Gipsy, as Secretary, felt her deficiency very keenly
when she made up the accounts. She was a proud, sensitive girl, and the
knowledge that she alone, of the whole Guild, had not rendered her dues
to the Treasurer was a bitter humiliation.

It was not in regard to the Guild alone that she was hampered by lack of
money. During the spring term the girls at Briarcroft were accustomed to
get up a small bazaar in aid of a home for waifs and strays. They were
already beginning to work for it, and Gipsy, who would gladly have
helped, made the unpleasant discovery that it is impossible to make
bricks without straw, or in other words that she had no materials. Each
Form generally took a stall, so one afternoon there was a little
informal meeting of the Upper Fourth, to discuss what contributions
could be relied upon.

"I vote that each girl undertakes to make a certain number of articles;
that would be far the easiest, and then we should know how we stand,"
suggested Alice O'Connor. "We'll draw up a list, and write it down."

"Need we do it quite that way?" said Hetty Hancock. "Wouldn't it be
enough if each promises to do what she can?"

"Why? It's much better to nail people."

"Well, you see, it mightn't suit everybody. There's one girl I know who
perhaps really couldn't undertake to make several things. We don't want
her to feel uncomfortable."

Gipsy was not in the room at that moment, so Hetty was free to give her
hint.

"If you mean Gipsy Latimer, I don't see