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Lydia drew a deep breath and paused where through the trunks of the white birches she caught the glimmer of the lake. There was a log at hand and she sat down, threw her mortar-board on the ground and rested, chin cupped in her hands, lips parted, eyes tear dimmed. She was weary of thought.
How Willis got rid of his two guests, he did not say, but half an hour later, when Lydia emerged from the dairy building, he was waiting for her. There was a quiet drizzle of rain, as was usual this Fall, and Lydia was wearing her old coat, with her mortar-board. But it was clear that the professor of Shakespeare did not know what she wore.
"You see," replied Bearwarden, "his fiancee is not yet a senior, being in the class of two thousand and one at Vassar, and so cannot marry him for a year. Not till next June can this sweet girl graduate come forth with her mortar-board and sheepskin to enlighten the world and make him happy. That is, I suspect, one reason why he proposed this trip."
At twenty-five minutes to six he put the book back in the window-sill, dashed a few crumbs from his jacket, assumed a mortar-board cap that was lying on the tea-caddy, and went forth to his evening "preparation duty." The West Street was empty and shining golden with the sunset.
"I say," he said with a fearful sense of his temerity, and raising his mortar-board awkwardly as though he was passing a funeral. "But that sheet of paper ..." "Yes," she said surprised quite naturally. "May I have it?" "Why?" He felt a breathless pleasure, like that of sliding down a slope of snow. "I would like to have it."
"Do you know, I think I've heard you sing before." "Possibly," Cope said, turning his back on the keyboard. "I sang in the University choir for a year or two." "In gown and mortar-board? 'Come, Holy Spirit, and all that?" "Yes; I sang solos now and then." "Of course," she said. "I remember now. But I never saw you before without your mortar-board. That changes the forehead.
It was a half mile through the University farm to the street-car and he wanted to re-establish himself with Lydia before some other swain appeared. "Tell me what this means, Miss Dudley!" he said eagerly as he raised his umbrella to hold it carefully over the mortar-board. "It looks as though it meant rain, to me," replied Lydia, shortly. Willis gave a little gasp. "Oh! I beg your pardon!"
The Slave of the Lamp climbed down from the piano, and dispassionately kicked him. "Play up, Turkey," he said; "this is serious." But there fell on the door the knock of authority. It happened to be King, in gown and mortar-board, enjoying a Saturday evening prowl before dinner. "Locked doors! Locked doors!" he snapped with a scowl.
I'll write out part, old man." "Thanks, Telson, you're an awful brick. I suppose Riddell wouldn't think it wicked of you to write another fellow's impot, would he?" "I half fancy he would; but I won't tell him. Hullo! though, here comes Coates." A monitor wearing his "mortar-board" approached. "Where's your imposition, Parson?" he asked.
"And your mortar-board," he added with a peculiar intonation, as if glad thus to prove that Cyril was one of those rude boys who have to be told to take their hats off in a room. "Whatever's amiss?" Constance murmured under her breath, as Cyril obeyed the command. "Whatever's amiss?" Mr. Povey made no immediate answer.
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