Catherine, tutored at home by her scholarly father, went to Bramber Manor believing that the chief interest would be study! Naturally many surprises were in store. Her allusions to history and Shakespeare were not met with any enthusiasm out of class. She found games seemed far more important. And at games she made only a poor shape, giving an important person a black eye with a ball very shortly after her arrival. However, the girls were very jolly, full of fun and they liked Catherine. And as for Catherine, she found herself on good terms with the magnificent young lady known as “Tiger”, everybody’s heroine, but with plenty of sense as well as good looks and dash, and round herself very happy, though clumsy. There is plenty of life at Bramber Manor—even in the San—and a certain amount of Guiding lends variety, and soon Catherine is completely settled down. At the close of the story some of the chums are making resolutions; somebody suggests some for Catherine—now Kate, and she is able to retort, “Look to yourself. I can make my own resolutions, thank you!” Altogether a very happy, high-spirited story.
(added to website 17 January 2026)
