and her hair hastily tucked into a net. "I never get up till nine
o'clock when I'm at home. Ma saves my breakfast for me. She says
I shall have my sleep out while I have the chance."

"You don't look quite awake now," remarked Clover.

"No, because I haven't washed my face. Half the time I don't, before
breakfast. There's that old mattress has to be turned; and, when I
sleep over, I just do that first, and then scramble my clothes on the
best way I can. Any thing not to be marked!"

After prayers and breakfast were done, the girls had half an hour for
putting their bedrooms to rights, during which interval it is to be
hoped that Lilly found time to wash her face. After that, lessons
began, and lasted till one o'clock. Dinner followed, with an hour's
"recreation;" then the bell rang for "silent study hour," when the
girls sat with their books in their bedrooms, but were not allowed
to speak to each other. Next came a walk.

"Who are you going to walk with?" asked Rose Red, meeting Clover in
Quaker Row.

"I don't know. Katy, I guess."

"Are you really? You and she like each other, don't you? Do you know
you're the first sisters I ever knew at school who did! Generally, they
quarrel awfully. The Stearns girls, who were here last term, scarcely
spoke to each other. They didn't even room together; and Sarah Stearns
was always telling tales against Sue, and Sue against Sara."