It was absolutely useless, for Rona would not answer a single word.
"Go to your bedroom," said the irate Principal at last.

"This matter cannot be allowed to pass.

If you had owned up at once nothing would have been said, but such duplicity and obstinacy are unpardonable.

Until you make a full confession you must not mix with the rest of the school.
We should be sorry to have to send you back to New Zealand, but girls with no sense of honour cannot remain at The Woodlands." Still sobbing hysterically, Rona was policed upstairs by Miss Teddington and locked into her bedroom.

An hour or two of solitude might bring her to her senses, thought the mistress, and break the stubborn spirit which seemed at present to possess her.