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`` Oh , thanks , '' Sue said , bowing profoundly . `` It is because of my long association with you , then ; '' and with this good-natured banter she was off to lunch . At two-thirty in the afternoon there was a general exodus from the classrooms , the recitations for the day being over . It had been rather a strenuous period for Blue Bonnet -- the continuous round from seven o'clock in the morning . She was a little weary as she left the English class , and filed out with the other girls who stopped to chat for a minute as they put away their books . Down the hall came Mary Boyd with Carita still in her train . Blue Bonnet stopped them and inquired how Carita had got on during the day .