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He would be the ideal landlord of his age; the people who lived on his property would, when he attained his majority, enter into a millennium of bliss. Maggie returned to St. Benet's, imagining herself quite heart-whole, but happiness shone out of her eyes, and there was a new, tender ring in her voice for which she could not account to herself and which added a new fascination to her beauty.
Benet's had reached them, and they were anxious to get a full report from Miss Oliphant. Did she not think it a scandalous sort of thing to have occurred? "Not at all," answered Maggie in her sweetest tones; "it was capital fun, I assure you." "Were you really there?" asked Miss Duncan, the eldest of the girls. "We heard it, of course, bur could scarcely believe it possible."
For, shortly after her seventeenth birthday, Maggie Oliphant met a girl whose beauty and brilliance were equal to her own, whose nature was stronger and who had been carefully trained in heart and mind while Maggie had been neglected. Miss Lee was going through a course of training at St. Benet's College for Women at Kingsdene. She was an uncommon girl in every sense of the word.
Benet's are in that happy period of existence when they need give no thought to money-making." "Some are," said Prissie. She sighed and the color rushed into her cheeks. Mrs. Marshall looked at her affectionately. "Helen," she called to her granddaughter who was standing near, "bring Miss Peel another cup of tea and some cake, Helen some of that nice cake you made yesterday.
Shortly after the conclusion of the summer term Maggie and Hammond were married, and her little world at St. Benet's had to get on without the presence which had always exerted the influence of a strong personality and which had been potent both for good and evil.
But it was one of the facts well known at St. Benet's that, fascinating as Miss Oliphant was, she was also unreasonable. On certain occasions she could even be disobliging. In short, when Maggie "took the bit between her teeth," to employ an old metaphor, she could neither be led nor driven. After a great deal of heated discussion and indignant words, she had her will.
The girls grew cozy and confidential together. Priscilla told Maggie about her home, a little also about her past history and her motive in coming to St. Benet's. Maggie sympathized with all the expression she was capable of. At last Priscilla bade her new friend good night, and, rising from her luxurious chair, prepared to go back to her own room.
"Do come and cocoa with me to-night, Miss Peel," said Miss Day. "You're so dreadfully unsociable, not a bit like an ordinary St. Benet's girl. If you go on in this fashion, you'll be moped to death before your first term is over." "I am accustomed to a very quiet life," responded Priscilla, "and I want to work; I have come here to work."
Priscilla had not yet been twelve hours at St. Benet's, and yet almost every student she had met had spoken of Annabel Lee had spoken of her with interest, with regret. One girl had gone further than this; she had breathed her name with bitter sorrow. Priscilla wished she had not been put into this room.
He misunderstands me he thinks me cold, wicked, heartless and I can never, never set myself right with him. Soon he will grow tired of me and give his heart to some one else, and perhaps marry some one else. When he does, I too shall die. Yes, whatever happens, I must go away from St. Benet's." Maggie's tears always came slowly; she put up her handkerchief to wipe them away.
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