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The girl listened closely, and Patricia thought she nodded approval at the names of Bruce Hayden and Greycroft, and showed a keener interest when Milano's visit to Rockham was hastily mentioned. She made few comments, however, and when the gong rang, rose to go into the studio with graceful alacrity.
The haunting sense of failure was with her, but she would not stop to listen to it. She practiced her exercises with the greatest care, she went to the concerts for which she had cards, and, remembering Madame Milano's song at the Filmore evening, she bought the music and learned the thing by heart.
Time was when she groveled fairly groveled at Milano's lightest suggestion. At Leeuwarden, for instance " Patricia had caught the look in Bruce's eye and she flung her petulance from her with her usual energy. "Never mind preaching any more, St. Francis-Edward-David Carson-Kendall, I'll be good," she said lightly. "Tell me the worst, Elinor, so that I may have it over.
Unconsciously she had begun to fulfill Madame Milano's purpose in sending her to Artemis Lodge. It was very hard for Patricia to go over to Rosamond's room after breakfast for her hour at the piano, but she did it so bravely that the self-centered Rosamond never guessed how much it cost her. That was her first unconscious victory over herself.
She sighed over the prospect of being bottled up for such an interminable period and regretted that Milano's orders were so strict in regard to her intercourse with her family. "It's a perfect shame that I can't go home every day," she thought suddenly, rather pitying herself for the privations she was suffering.
"I'll try to live up to the great Milano's recommendation. But if I fail, I'll get my literary sister, the authoress of " Here Judith, for some reason unknown to Patricia, looked so very hurt and agitated that she dropped her teasing manner and said with genuine satisfaction, "I'm awfully glad that you pointed out what a card Madame Milano's introduction will be, Judy.
"You will come to see me this afternoon, I am sure." She was gone before Patricia could reply and since the door into the studio was opening softly, there was no other course for Madame Milano's protégé than to walk as calmly as she might straight into the fiery furnace, leaving all thoughts of Rosamond Merton behind her.
Miss Ardsley was graciousness itself, and even the mention of Madame Milano's name did not seem to heighten her original cordiality, but she had disappointment for Patricia's high hopes in her accounts of the popularity of Artemis Lodge. "I assure you, my dear Mrs. Hayden, we have not a single empty room," she said with graceful regret.
"You are to study with Madame Milano's friend, Madame Tancredi, and to live at the new students' club, Artemis Lodge " "I thought Ted called it something else," began Patricia puzzled. Ted laughed. "That's the name the fellows have for it," he explained in a hasty aside. Elinor went gently on with the rules.
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