A wide experience of girls had proved that solitary confinement soon quelled insubordination, and by dinner-time the culprit would probably volunteer some explanation.
Both Principals were greatly upset by the occurrence.

Hitherto the little world at The Woodlands had jogged on without any more desperate happenings than the breaking of silence rules or the omission of practising.

Never in all its annals had they been obliged to deal with a case of such serious import.
Ulyth, with the rest of V B, was obliged to march off to her form-room.
The inquiry had delayed the morning's work, and Miss Harding began to give out books without a moment's further waste of time.

Ulyth sat staring at the problem set her, without in the least taking in its details.

She could not apply her mind to the calculation of cubic contents while Rona was crying her heart out upstairs.