I must have been a little nervous.

Please excuse me." She went to the board, swept off the signature with one stroke, then rewrote it plainly.

"My name is Comstock," she said distinctly.

She returned to her seat and following the formula used by the others made her first high school recitation.
As Elnora resumed her seat Professor Henley looked at her steadily.
"It puzzles me," he said deliberately, "how you can write as beautiful a demonstration, and explain it as clearly as ever has been done in any of my classes and still be so disturbed as to make a mistake in your own name.

Are you very sure you did that yourself, Miss Comstock ?" "It is impossible that any one else should have done it," answered Elnora.
"I am very glad you think so," said the professor.