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Updated: June 5, 2025
But you know, Fan, that we sometimes say things without quite meaning them, or thinking that they will perhaps be remembered for a long time, and do harm. I am sure at least I trust that Miss Starbrow did not really mean that, because I spoke to her about giving you instruction in religious subjects, and she consented, and left it to me to do whatever I thought best."
The next few days, although very sweet and full to Fan, were uneventful; then, early on a Wednesday evening, once more Miss Starbrow made her sit with her at her bedroom fire and talked to her for a long time. "What did you tell me your name is?" she asked. "Frances Harrod." "I don't like it. I call it horrid.
The parting will come quickly enough, and who knows who knows what changes another year will bring?" At the last moment, when all the preparations were complete, Miss Starbrow determined to accompany Fan to her new home, and, after dropping her there, to pay a long-promised visit before leaving England to an old friend of her girlhood, who was now married and living at Salisbury.
"The more I see of him," continued Constance, heedless of Mary's darkening brow, "the better I like him. He is the very type of what a man should be strong and independent, yet gentle, so patient when his patience is tried. It was easy to see that he was not happy, and that the cause of it was the coldness of one Mary Starbrow." "Why not your coldness, or Fan's coldness?" snapped the other.
I wish I could give you happiness to make up for it all, but I can't be Providence to anyone." "Oh, ma'am, you have made me so happy!" exclaimed Fan, the tears springing to her eyes. Miss Starbrow frowned a little and turned her face aside. Then she said: "Just because I fed and dressed and sheltered you, Fan does happiness come so easily to you?"
I have settled what to do, and I have Miss Starbrow's authority to take on myself the guidance of the girl in all spiritual matters. I spoke to her about it, and regret to have to say that she seems absolutely indifferent about religion. I was deeply shocked to hear that Miss Affleck has never been taught to say a prayer, and, so far as Miss Starbrow knows, has never entered a church.
But there was infinite comfort in the thought that this precious soul to be saved had fallen into her hands, and not into those of some worldling like Miss Starbrow herself, or, worse still, of a downright freethinker like her own daughter.
Rosie considered for some time, and finally said, "I'll leave you alone if you'll tell me what you are here for everything about yourself, mind, and no lies; and what Miss Starbrow is going to do with you." "I don't know, and I sha'n't say a word more," returned Fan, whereupon Rosie slapped her face and ran out of the room.
"You know that pretty girl?" she heard his friend ask, as she hurried away a little frightened towards the Queen's Road gate. Miss Starbrow appeared very much put out about this casual encounter in the Gardens when Fan related the incidents of her walk. "I'll not walk there again, Mary, so as not to meet him," said Fan timidly.
But at the end of that month Fan unhappily, and from no fault of her own, fell into serious disgrace. She had gone to the Exhibition Road with a sample of her work on the morning of a bright windy day which promised to be dry; a little later Miss Starbrow also went out. Before noon the weather changed, and a heavy continuous rain began to fall.
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