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`` Of course not , goose , '' replied Grace . `` She knows us too well for that . '' But it was with a peculiar apprehension of something unpleasant that Grace answered a summons to the principal 's office just before school closed for the day . `` Grace , '' she said , as the young girl entered the office , `` were you in my office yesterday afternoon between half past one and a quarter of two ? '' `` Why , yes , Miss Thompson . I came to ask permission to use the gymnasium , but you were out , so I came back and asked you just before school closed . '' `` Yes , I remember that you did , '' replied the principal .