She would not have to face her mother and account for its loss.

She put it in her pocket, and threw the box into the ditch.

Then she sat on the bridge and tried to think, but her brain was confused.
"Perhaps the worst is over," she said at last.

"I will go back.

What would mother say to me if I came home now ?" So she returned to the high school, followed some other pupils to the coat room, hung her hat, and found her way to the study where she had been in the morning.