human
Ye'll be taking your supper here, miss, and then ye shall gang to your bed, Mrs. Nicol informed her, and Joey, seeing nothing whatever to stay up for, agreed meekly. It was not the evening she had pictured to herself, but she must make the best of it. She wrote a pencil post card to Mums, while Mrs. Nicol laid the table and set before her a rather gristly chop, in which she mentioned that the journey had been
gpt
and she herself was
human
too. It seemed better not to mention Miss Craigie's illness, and this rather desolate reception, when she happened to be one of those five children who had promised father to
gpt
She'll be there, I suppose?
human
Why should she, you mugwump? A scholarship kid won't have an entrance exam like an ordinary new girl.
gpt
I wish to goodness the Redlands trustees had never thought of the old scholarship idea, grumbled a third voice.
human
Mary Hertford was rather the limit, wasn't she? at least when she was in the Lower School--setting the pace so frightfully fast, specially in maths, but at least Mary was our own sort. I don't call it playing the game to shove village schoolgirls among us.
gpt
Syb, you don't mean it?
human
I do. Miss Wakefield told mother. The Lamb had had a letter from her dear Miss Craigie, I fancy, and in her joy went bleating round to everyone.... Fact! This scholarship kid was the priceless gem from some village school.
gpt
How putrid!
human
What on earth are we to do with her?
gpt
Put up with her, I suppose, Noreen, my good child. What else do you suppose we can do?
human
Wish to goodness I hadn't worked so beastly hard last term. Reward, Remove II. B, and the company of this village kid. It's sure to be in Remove II. with scholarship! Think she'll say 'sy' for say, and drop her 'h's'?
gpt
She's Scotch, not Cockney, you cuckoo, and probably quite harmless, someone else chimed in.
human
But I should have thought the Grammar School a bit more her line. However to Redlands she's coming, and at Redlands she'll presumably stay, and we shall have to make the best of it.
gpt
And of her,