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All this tutoring cost money, and it was with considerable feelings of guilt that Lily wrote cheques to pay Miss Collings. She justified the expense in her own mind, though, and thought of what to say when her father discovered the new items in her monthly bank statements. ''After all (I'll tell him), you wanted me to learn all that the faculty of Glebe Hill School could teach me! " Another thought entered Lily's mind: How pleasant it was to have a little money at one's disposal for special wants or needs.

Whether clay or lawn, the court had to dry out after each rain, then be rolled perfectly smooth, and the lines freshly marked with powdered chalk or lime. All this put a private tennis court beyond the reach of any but the wealthiest people. The best the ordinary citizen could do was to join a Tennis Club (which, with an adequate number of members, could employ a groundskeeper to keep the courts in playable shape), or campaign for his community government to build and maintain courts for public use.

Without realizing it, Lily and Mina had begun to sing in perfect twopart harmony, the two voices blending in practiced cadence. The effect was startling! While many of the students may have missed it, the Choir Mistress and the Director of Music certainly did not; at the conclusion of the service they joined Miss Northrop in seeking out the two Holland sisters to ask where and how they had learned to sing together so beautifully. The girls were a little embarrassed, and explained that they had begun to sing in harmony in church long ago, just for fun, as a way to enliven the tedium of the long services on Sunday mornings.