Read "A Bunch of Cherries" by L.T. Meade online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
It began to be whispered in the school -- at first, it is true, in very low tones and scarcely any words, but just a nod and a single glance -- that Mrs. Clavering was very anxious that Kitty should win the Scholarship.
There was really no reason for this rumor to get afloat, but beyond doubt the rumor was afloat, was in the air, and was talked of by the girls -- at first, as I have said, scarcely at all, but by and by more and more plainly as the hours flew on towards the Cherry Feast.