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"Nothing," replied Janet. "I—I—shall I run out to the front, Mrs. Freeman, and listen if I can hear the carriage? You can hear it a very long way off from the brow of the hill."

Dorothy detached herself from Bridget's clinging arm, and ran quickly up the sloping lawn.

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"Poor darling!" said Olive, in a sympathetic tone. "I thought I'd tell you, Janet, that whatever happened I'd take your part."

"People will like you here too," she said. "I am certain you are very good-natured; come and let me[Pg 19] show you some of our snug little arrangements in the common room, and then I think it will be time for bed.""Please remember——" she began.

"As I was saying," began Janet——

"No, it was that wild Irish girl's doing. I really don't know what to do with her."

"Oh, oh, oh! if you're going to take her part, that is the last straw."

The girls entered the wide, long dining hall and immediately took their places at the table.

Ruth and Olive slept in the back part of the room. They had a cubicle each, of course, but they had not Dorothy's taste, and their little bedrooms had a dowdy effect beside hers.