52 TROTTYS WEDDING TOUR. angrily, it would have been more inspiriting. But so very patiently ! Jemima sighed. “I’ve tried again so many times!” she said. And this was true. So many times that the principal had whispered to the first assistant, and the first assistant had whispered to the second assistant, and the Latin department suspected, and the girls themselves had begun to understand, that Jem Jasper could not write a composition. 2