"But for that very reason she may have less chance of winning, because Sir John is a wonderfully just man.  Did you ever see anyone so terribly in earnest as Florence?  Her eyes have quite a strained look at times, and she does not eat half as much as she did; then she gets such long, long letters from that wonderful aunt of hers.  She did not get those letters at all last term, and her dress is so smart, and she has such heaps of pocket-money; there is a great change in Florence. Sometimes I feel that I want her to win, but at other times all my sympathies are for Kitty."