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'I saw that you hated them, my child. 'Did you notice that, Mrs Macintyre? How wonderful you are! 'No, my dear baby. But I, who equally hate being kissed, saw what you were enduring in a noble cause. It may come right in the end, Hollyhock. We must hope for the best. 'Oh, but you are a darling! said Hollyhock, flinging her arms round the head-mistress's neck. 'Oh, but I love you!
We saw the bedrooms, the dining-room, the drawing-room, the harps and the pianos in fact, everything, and I decided that Sophie could not be better placid. We went into the head-mistress's private room, and Madame Cornelis paid her a hundred guineas in advance, and obtained a receipt.
I will have to speak to her, replied Miss Upjohn. But Miss Briggs did not let the matter rest there. She said nothing more at the time; but after school was over she went to the head-mistress's room, meaning to talk the matter over. 'Miss Upjohn, excuse me, began Miss Briggs. Miss Upjohn patiently put her pen down.
We saw the bedrooms, the dining-room, the drawing-room, the harps and the pianos in fact, everything, and I decided that Sophie could not be better placid. We went into the head-mistress's private room, and Madame Cornelis paid her a hundred guineas in advance, and obtained a receipt.
"Because I love her, and because it would be mean," answered Ruth, and now she burst into tears. Miss Ravenscroft talked to her a little longer, but Ruth was firm. When she left the head-mistress's presence she felt a certain sense almost of elation. "Now I don't feel so absolutely horrible," she said to herself. "Of course I will face the governors.
Be thankful for your head-mistress's trust in you, and always act up to the principles you have been taught; it will save you from many a pitfall or from the trouble a weak young lady like Miss Eva brings upon herself. 'It doesn't seem to matter so much as long as I have you to get me out of it, said Vava mischievously.
Miranda was too fond of popularity to give Henrietta up entirely, so the two remained friendly, but they were no longer intimate. Miss Arundel was the head-mistress's sister, and undertook all the serious teaching that was not in the hands of masters. She did not have many outward attractions of face and form, but schoolgirls will know that that is not of much importance.
Vava was called into the head-mistress's study that morning, and went in looking very hot and indignant, but came out smiling, and said to Doreen, 'It's all right. 'What's all right? demanded Doreen, staring. 'Oh I forgot you know nothing about it. Well, it does not matter; it was only something that was bothering me, and it's all right now. Miss Upjohn is a brick, explained Vava.
But what gave supreme importance to this coming visit was the special fact that Dolly was now for the first time in her life to find herself "in society." Among the friends she had picked up at her Marylebone day-school were two west-country girls, private boarders of the head-mistress's, who came from the neighborhood of Combe Neville in Dorset.
Vava went by her orders to the head-mistress's room, but found it empty. As she was coming away she met Miss Briggs, and thought it her duty to tell her that the head-mistress was not there, and was then going to pass on to her classroom. But Miss Briggs stopped her. 'Then you had better wait here for her, she observed. 'I shall miss my exam.! protested Vava.
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