It's been rather rough on her to stay among those babes." "Well, I say Miss Ledbury might have chosen a soloist from V B," returned Beth icily.

She was not a Rona enthusiast.
"Who?
Stephie's playing the piano and Gertie's reciting, Merle croaks like a raven, you and Chris don't learn singing, Addie's no ear for tune, and the rest of us, as Leddie says, 'have no puff'.

I'm glad Rona can do something well for the school.

She's been here three terms, and she's as much a Woodlander now as anyone else." Rona herself seemed to regard her honour with dismay.

The easy confidence which she had brought from New Zealand had quite disappeared, thanks to incessant snubbing; she was apt now to veer to the side of diffidence.
"Do you think I'll break down ?" she asked Ulyth nervously.
"Not a bit of it.