And now most of the examination had come to an end.  The questions on history had all been answered and duly marked by the patient professors who had come to Cherry Court Park for the great occasion.  The girls one by one had approached the piano and played each her trial piece and had sung her trial song, and still it seemed to everyone that Kitty led the van; for her music, although not quite so showy and brilliant as Florence's, was marked with true musical expression, and her song, a sweet old English ballad, came purely and freely from her young lips.