proudly displayed.

"Good gracious!" cried Arabella, "I don't see how you got inside the
door with all those things, for I saw her pinching your bundle, and
you'd think that she must have felt those little parcels even if they
were wrapped inside that cloth."

"Well, you may be very sure she didn't feel them, for if she had, I'd
never had them to show you."

It was, indeed, a fixed rule at Glenmore that pupils, except by special
permission, should bring no food into the building, the reason being
that plenty of good food was provided at meal times, and eating between
meals was forbidden.

Patricia's idea of a "treat" was a variety of all sorts, but never a
thought had she as to whether the articles that she chose would combine
well.

Arabella, often annoyed with indigestion, gazed at the "treat" that
Patricia had placed upon the little table, and wondered how she would
feel when she had eaten her share.

And eat it she must, for Patricia never would forgive her if she did
not. More than that, she must not refuse anything, because Patricia
would consider that a sure sign that her "treat" had failed to please,
and for a week at least, would talk of Arabella as ungrateful.

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