Prefects don't get much time to themselves! With best love, Your affectionate coz, Dona Anderson.
"What a jolly letter," commented Lorna, as she handed it back.
"Yes, Dona is a dear.

I used to want to go to Brackenfield, but I wasn't well last year, and Mother said it was too strenuous a school for me.
Isn't it a joke that Marjorie is in Italy?
What fun if she were to turn up some day.

I have a kind of feeling that I'm going to see her.

I'm getting quite excited." Lorna did not reply.

Irene's correspondence was after all only a matter of half importance to her.