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agreed Cicely Chalmers dolefully . `` Miss Frazer might have set us a shorter one for the first ! It 's really too bad of her to make us begin with two pages and a half in a new book ! I 'm sure I shall never get it into my head , if I try till midnight . '' `` I wonder why things always seem so much harder to learn when one 's just come back after the holidays ? '' propounded Marjorie Butler with a melancholy yawn . `` I do n't know .