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Jones, who began to think that he had come on a fool's errand, and had better have trusted the head-mistress to manage her school without his interference. He was just getting up to say good-bye when there came a knock at the door, and Miss Briggs entered, looking very perturbed at sight of Montague Jones. 'My letter was strictly private, Mr. Jones, she said.
She has behaved disgracefully, and I shall have the great pain of reporting what I have just witnessed to our head-mistress to-morrow." So saying, Miss Worrick walked quickly out of the room and out of the house. "Well, thank goodness, she's gone the old cat!" cried Kitty. "Now, Kitty what have you done?" said Alice. "Oh, this is terrible! Fresh scrapes! We seem to live in constant hot water.
And this was so in the case of one Amelia Ross, his first cousin, who was head-mistress of a flourishing and well-established school for "young ladies," in the Regent's Park district. She had been a head-mistress for many years, and was well over fifty when she married a meek, small, nothingly man who had what Thackeray calls "a little patent place."
"In a month or two the head-mistress of her school, a sensible woman, helped her to get an engagement with not a word said of the catastrophe. She went as Miss Allen. It was her firm resolve never again to see Northway. She would not acknowledge that that ceremony in the church made her a wife.
Oh, yes, they were having a glorious time; and it was quite right to do what you liked sometimes, and quite right to defy your elders. Oh, how many she was defying: Ruth Craven, who would almost have given her life to keep her back from this; Miss Ravenscroft, the head-mistress, to whom Kathleen's heart did not go out; her own father; her own aunt; Alice Tennant oh, bother Alice Tennant!
Anyhow, here is a note for you. It is from Miss Ravenscroft, our head-mistress. I rather fancy that will decide matters." Kathleen tore open the note which Alice had handed to her. She read the following words: "DEAR MISS O'HARA, I should be glad if you would come round to see me at six o'clock this evening. I have something of importance to say to you." "What can she mean?" said Kathleen.
"Why, have you got into a scrape, Ruth? Is that why you look so pale and excited and distressed?" said Cassandra. She spoke in a whisper. Ruth's eyes looked full into hers. "God help me," she said under her breath. "Cassie, if you knew, if you could guess, you'd pity me." Ruth turned away and followed the teacher into the school. A moment later she was standing before the head-mistress.
But, though of course the little one's affair is the least important, we had better get to the bottom of that first, and I should like to tell you what really happened. She told her story, and how Valetta had been tempted and then bullied into going beyond the first peeps, and finding she did not produce the impression she wished, she begged Miss Elbury to talk it over with the head-mistress.
Alice threw up her hands. "Don't ask me," she said; "perhaps the less I say the better. I am late as it is. I won't keep you now, Miss Purcell." Alice ran the rest of the way. She entered the great school, and knocked at the front entrance. This door was never opened except to the head-mistress and her visitors. After a time an elderly servant answered her summons.
We have a new one each week, and this week, as it is the beginning of the new year, we have taken "Truth and honour." The school motto is "Love as brethren," and I shall make a little speech upon it to-morrow morning after prayers. Stella listened in her dignified, reserved way, and it was only when she smiled that the head-mistress understood Mr.
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