Now she thought her funds were almost gone, and every day she worried over expenses.

She could see no reason in going through the forms of graduation when pupils had all in their heads that was required to graduate.

Elnora knew she had to have her diploma in order to enter the college she wanted to attend, but she did not dare utter the word, until high school was finished, for, instead of softening as she hoped her mother had begun to do, she seemed to remain very much the same.
When the girl reached the swamp she sat on a log and thought over the expense she was compelled to meet.

Every member of her particular set was having a large photograph taken to exchange with the others.

Elnora loved these girls and boys, and to say she could not have their pictures to keep was more than she could endure.