`` For pity 's sake , Cyrilla , put that grammar away , '' moaned Mary . `` There is something positively uncanny about a girl who can study Greek on Saturday afternoons -- at least , this early in the term . '' `` I 'm not really studying , '' said Cyrilla , tossing the book away . `` I 'm only pretending to . I 'm really just as bored and lonesome as you are . But what else is there to do ? We ca n't stir outside the door ; we 've nothing to read ; we ca n't make candy since Mrs. Plunkett has forbidden us to use the oil stove in our room ; we 'll probably quarrel all round if we sit here in idleness ; so I 've been trying to brush up my Greek verbs by way of keeping out of mischief . Have you any better employment to offer me ? '' `` If it were only a mild drizzle we might go around and see the Patterson girls , '' sighed Carol . `` But there is no venturing out in such a downpour . Cyrilla , you are supposed to be the brainiest one of us . Prove your claim to such pre-eminence by thinking of some brand-new amusement , especially suited to rainy afternoons . That will be putting your grey matter to better use than squandering it on Greek verbs out of study limits . '' `` If only I 'd got a letter from home today , '' said Mary , who seemed determined to persist in gloom . `` I would n't mind the weather . Letters are such cheery things : -- especially the letters my sister writes . They 're so full of fun and nice little news . The reading of one cheers me up for the day . Cyrilla Blair , what is the matter ? You nearly frightened me to death ! ''
Cyrilla had bounded XXXXX her bed to the centre of the floor , waving her Greek grammar wildly in the air .
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