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"I have failed, darling; I have failed entirely," she gasped out, "I meant to do right, but I did wrong; I have become worse and worse, although I cannot see the wrong myself. But Miss Worrick has found it out. I want to give up the school, darling, and to go back to Old Ireland.
"And at the end of the summer, as you have plenty of money, and as I am sure she has repented most bitterly will you send her to Girton?" "Oh, come, come; I make no promises." "But I know it is all right, and I am going to rush up to her and tell her everything. Oh, and here come Miss Sherrard and Miss Worrick. You shall see them without me."
"I have something on my own account to say to Miss Sherrard," answered Kitty in a proud voice; "something which will explain a good deal." "I am glad to hear it; but I scarcely think any words of yours can remove the stigma on your character. But come; I have no time to argue with you further." Miss Worrick now led the way into Miss Sherrard's little sitting-room.
"Well, Kitty, you did that splendidly," he said. "The impertinent wretches! Don't speak to me about them," answered Kitty. But just then she came face to face with a more serious obstacle. This was no less a person than Miss Worrick herself. Now if there was a prim mistress in the whole length and breadth of England, it was Matilda Worrick.
The girl's eyes were flashing; she was trembling all over. Just when her happiness seemed to be at its height, for Miss Sherrard and Miss Worrick to appear! "Oh, and there's the train!" she cried. "He will be here in a minute; let me see him first. Oh, the train, is stopping, and there he is; I see him at the very end; there he is with his white hair and let me go, let me go!"
"She is kept in for an imposition; she did not know her history, and Miss Worrick said she was to stay in," answered Mary Davies. "Oh, well, I suppose I can see her another time," said Gwin. At that moment she met Elma's anxious eyes. Elma was just about to dart to the side of her friend, when, to the amazement of all the girls, Kitty walked calmly across the playground.
But there's Alice, and she doesn't like me; and Miss Worrick can't bear me; and half the girls at school don't understand me, and, for the matter of that, I don't care for them; and I don't understand your stiff, proper English ways. I am far and away too wild for England. In Ireland we would only laugh at such a thing as happened last night.
Did you not give your parole that you would not hold communication with another girl in the school, and yet you have been trying to communicate with Elma Lewis by means of writing?" "Writing is not speaking," said Kitty, now standing up very erect and proud, and replying to Miss Worrick as pertly as she could. "Don't answer me, miss; you grow worse and worse.
Miss Sherrard was standing near the window; she turned quickly when she saw Miss Worrick, and a displeased and withal a troubled glance filled her eyes as they rested upon Kitty." "Anything fresh?" she said, turning to the teacher with a weary expression in her voice. "Only just what I expected," said Miss Worrick with bitterness. "Kitty Malone is not to be trusted.
Elma, can you throw any light on the matter?" "None whatever," answered Elma in a stout voice. "She went out with the college cap on and without her jacket, and for that reason some rough, rude boys talked to her, and she knocked one of them down in trying to defend herself, and so got into a terrible scrape. Miss Worrick, it seems, witnessed the transaction, and she told Miss Sherrard.
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