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"Aunt Jessica," Amy began to say drily, as though this were to be her last concession to a relationship now about to end, "I might as well tell you everything that has happened, just as I've been used to doing since I was a child when I've done anything wrong."
"I have something to say to you. It is curious," she went on, "that I was just talking about our basketball team when you came into the room. I had said to Nora, Jessica and Anne that I wanted more than anything else in the world to beat the junior team. Miss Thompson had been praising the team to me, and I said to the girls that I thought I loved it just as a mother loves her daughters.
They had dropped a little to the rear of the others. "I'm sorry, Tom," faltered Grace, "but I can't. I am fonder of you than any other man I know, but it is the fondness of long friendship. I'm not looking forward to marriage. It is my work that interests me most. I don't love you as Anne loves David, and Jessica and Nora love Reddy and Hippy. I don't believe I know what love means.
"Yes," she replied meditatively, "fully; there was no exaggeration, it was all quite natural." "Except Jessica in boy's clothes." "Don't mention her, please; I detest her." "And yet she spoke quite prettily on the night." "I did not hear her." "Why, where were you while all the world was making merry on the stage?"
The seniors hurried off to their banquet on the lawn and one more class day glided off to find its place with those of the past. "Wasn't it perfectly lovely?" sighed Jessica, as they made their way out. "I think commencement week has even more thrills in it than Christmas," Nora replied. "Wait till we have our class day. You shall write the class poem, Anne, and Jessica the song."
"Did you know, mother," said Jessica another day, "the Spencers are getting ready to go away?" "No. Where, I wonder?" "Europe," said Jessica. "I met Georgine yesterday and she told me. She just put on more airs about it." "Did she say when?" "Monday, I think. They'll get a notice in the papers again they always do." "Never mind," said Mrs. Hurstwood consolingly, "we'll go one of these days."
It was now the evening after New Year's and the morning train would take the boys back to college. Grace, Miriam and Anne would leave a day later for Overton. Nora and Jessica were to remain in Oakdale until the following week. It seemed only natural that they should spend their last evening together at the home of their old friend.
Whilst living thus at the seaside, Jessica was delighted by the arrival of Nancy Lord, who came to Teignmouth for a summer holiday. With her came Mary Woodruff. The faithful servant had been ill; Mr Lord sent her down into Devon to make a complete recovery, and to act as Nancy's humble chaperon. Nancy's stay was for three weeks. The friends saw a great deal of each other, and Miss.
Jessica! Jessica! And to this day the sight of peach blossoms in the spring the rustle of autumn leaves under my feet! Can you recall the lines of Malory?
It was the first time that the once haughty Miriam had ever referred publicly to past shortcomings, although from the time she and Grace had settled their difficulties at the close of the sophomore year, she had been a changed girl. "Where are Anne and Jessica to-day?" asked Eva Allen. "Anne and Jessica have refused point blank to honor us with their presence during practice," announced Nora.
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