Perhaps she did not think it good
for him to forgive him too easily. His evil prophecies about the exams
were fortunately not fulfilled, for his cousins, though they did not
score brilliant successes, just managed to scrape through without any
failures.
The Fifth form, when they heard the true facts of the story, repented
their hasty court of justice and made handsome amends.
"It doesn't matter!" said Merle. "You were quite right if you thought
we'd been cheating. I should pull anybody else up myself, fast enough. It
must have been the acting we did at Christmas that put the idea into
Clive's idiotic young head. He was dressed up as a girl then, and rather
fancied himself. He really is the limit."
"We shall always be a little uncertain now which is you and which is your
cousin!" laughed Iva.
"Oh, he won't do it again! We've put him on his honour, and I don't think
he'd break his word."
CHAPTER XIII
The Kittiwake
The great Easter secret, which Merle had surprised and preserved with so
much difficulty, was out at last.
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