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Updated: June 7, 2025
Mary would have given anything to return with her, even if to go back must mean retiring into the convent forever; but the gate of the past had gently shut behind her. She could not knock upon it for admittance, at least not until she had walked farther along the path of the future. When Lady MacMillan had gone, Mrs. Home-Davis and Elinor showed no interest in the convent cousin.
"It's more of appearances than danger that I'm thinking," Mrs. Home-Davis explained, retiring slowly, face to the enemy, yet with no real desire to win the battle. "Perhaps if I write Mrs. Larkin in Florence a nice, responsible woman to find a family for you to stay with, it may do. Only in that case, you mustn't stop before you get to Florence.
Home-Davis, the widowed aunt in London, who had agreed to take charge of her? The question had fired Lady MacMillan to excitement, as Reverend Mother knew it would. Lady MacMillan believed that she had taste in dress. She was entirely mistaken in this idea; but that was not the point.
Home-Davis, who wished it put on record that she had been overruled by Mary's obstinacy. If undesirable incidents should happen, she wanted to say, "Mary would go by herself, without waiting for me. She's of age, and I couldn't coerce her." Mary felt like an escaped prisoner as the train began to move out of Victoria Station the train which was taking her toward France and Italy.
I may be ill on your hands. I feel as if I should be, unless I run away where it's warm and bright." Mrs. Home-Davis, much as she wanted to take the girl at her word, could not resist retorting: "It's not very bright and warm in Scotland at this time of year, yet you don't seem to have been ill there."
Home-Davis said, "some one suitable" might be travelling at the right time, and they could perhaps find an excuse for stopping at home themselves. "You can be ill, if necessary," suggested Elinor. "Yes, I can be ill, if necessary or you can," replied her mother. Mary had not known that there could be such noise in the world as the noise of London.
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