A dangerous spot that meeting of the corridors.

There the procession doubles the corner at a swinging curve, and there, time it as she would, the little arithmetic teacher was doomed to fall foul of the procession.

Daily Miss Quincey thought to dodge the line; daily it caught her at the disastrous corner.

Then Miss Quincey, desperate under the eye of the Head, would try to rush the thing, with ridiculous results.

And Fate or the Order of the day contrived that Miss Cursiter should always be there to witness her confusion.