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But Hope Wayne, remembering her first evening in his society, raised her eyes again with curiosity, and as she did so Lawrence smiled kindly and gravely, and his eyes hung upon hers as if he saw again what he had thought never to see; while Hope resolved that she would ask him under what circumstances he had known Pinewood. But the opportunity had not yet arrived.
Cora and her friends might suspect, but they really knew nothing about Nancy's past life. Already some of the girls had received boxes from home those delightful surprise boxes that give such a zest to boarding-school life. Nancy never received a letter, even. So, Nancy could not be very happy at Pinewood Hall.
The many girls of Pinewood Hall, however, who found delight in skating for the sake of the sport itself, welcomed Nancy as one of their own. They found she could skate splendidly with a partner, that she could cut figure eights, could do the "long roll," and otherwise give a good account of herself on the ice.
She would have cried only she was ashamed to do so in the sight of these sharp-tongued, quarreling sophomores. Poor Nancy Nelson's introduction to Pinewood Hall seemed a most unfortunate one. The omnibus lurched through a wide gateway where two huge stone pillars almost hid a tiny lodge, the latter aglow with lamplight.
But Cora disliked her from the start. And the black-eyed girl was sharp enough to see that accusing Nancy of being "a nobody" for some reason hurt her roommate more than anything else. Therefore, being of a malicious disposition, Cora continued to harp upon this, until she had spread through the school the suspicion that Nancy had come to Pinewood Hall under unusual circumstances.
You are pledged to me? Whisper!" He hears the delicious music. "And you are mine?" A soft beam travels to the fern-covert under the pinewood where they sit, and for answer he has her eyes turned to him an instant, timidly fluttering over the depths of his, and then downcast; for through her eyes her soul is naked to him. "Lucy! my bride! my life!"
I bedded down on the ground and fell into a deep sleep; but soon we had to remount our horses to accompany the Emperor, who was about to visit his troops. There was no moon, and the obscurity of the night was increased by a thick mist which made progress difficult. The troopers of the Emperor's escort had the idea of lighting torches made of pinewood and straw which were most useful.
"And you, I suppose, go to school here at Pinewood?" "Oh, yes." "A beautiful place! A very beautiful place," said the stranger. "You may be acquainted with a girl named Montgomery, now?" "Yes, sir," said Nancy, with gravity. "Now, where might she be found at this hour?" Nancy chanced to have seen Grace and some of her satellites sitting in a pergola on a mound not far away.
"How do you expect the nice girls here at Pinewood Hall will want to associate with you? "And let me tell you, Miss, that I refuse to room with you another day. I shall tell Madame Schakael so right now!" concluded Cora, her face very red and her black eyes flashing angrily.
But they couldn't bear to go home till they had seen mother meet another lady, and knew that she was safe. You cannot leave your mother to go green in the face in a distant pinewood, far from all human aid, and then go home on your wishing carpet as though nothing had happened. When mother seemed safe the children returned to the carpet, and said 'Home' and home they went.
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