76 MARGERY.

she had long since become ashamed of her ill temper, so she
only hugged Margery and the book together, and Margery
went home quite happy. -

Punch met her at the door, as glad to see her as if she had
been gone a year, and was so perfectly sure that she was glad
to see him, that she hadn’t the heart to scold him.

Minnie won the medal, after all, and if any girl was
envious it was not Margery; but Minnie felt so bad at having
even suggested a suspicion of her, that she insisted upon
Margery’s keeping the ring forever.