The next evening I dressed my hair after the fashion of the Barmouth girls, with the small pride of wishing to make myself look different from the Surrey girls.

I expected they would stare at me in the Bible Class.

It would be my debut as a grown girl, and I must offer myself to their criticism.

I went late, so that I might be observed by the assembled class.

It met in the upper story of Temperance Hall--a new edifice.