Then she hung up a calendar that Betty had given her, one of her own manufacture.

"I shall soon be able to mark off one day," she thought with some relief.
Her room grew to look so different and so nice that she became quite interested, and rather a long time had elapsed before she tidied herself and went out in search of Miss Hammond's room.

It was not difficult to find, for it was on the same landing as her own, and had Miss Hammond's name painted on the door.
"Come in," said a voice in answer to her knock.

"Come in.

I was just about to begin without you.