It wouldn't be of any benefit to her to place her fault before the dean.

No doubt she would be dismissed, and that dismissal might spoil her whole life." "You are an eloquent pleader, Miss Harlowe," returned Miss Duncan.

"As this is strictly an affair of one of my classes, I consider that I am at liberty to do as I think best about placing this matter before the dean.
If I did see fit to do so I hardly think it would mean dismissal, particularly if I took you with me to plead the cause of the offender.
Come to me this afternoon after my last class and I will give you my answer." Grace left the class room far more cheerfully than she had entered.

Her own vindication had not impressed her half so deeply as Miss Duncan's apparently lenient attitude toward the girl who had been false to herself and to Overton..