Janet bent her fair face again over the open page; a faint flush had risen in each of her cheeks.
She went downstairs and entered her own private sitting room. It was now half-past eleven o'clock, and morning school was over. The weather was too hot for regular walks, and the girls were disporting themselves according to their own will and pleasure on the lawns and in the beautiful grounds which surrounded the school.
CHAPTER IV. THE QUEEN OF THE SCHOOL."Shall I really—how unfortunate; but she doesn't look a bad-tempered woman, and what is there in wishing for fresh eggs? Stale eggs aren't wholesome."
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Miss Collingwood was turning away, when her mistress stretched out her hand and drew her back.
"Oh, good gra——! I mean, mercy Moses!""He will expect you to stay until the end of the term."
She looked at the merry group on the lawn, and a desire to join them, even though of course she knew she was in no sense one of them, came over her.
"Don't shake me so, Vi, my honey; I'm coming to the exciting place—now then. Well, as I was going up the stairs all quite lonely, and by myself, never a soul within half a mile of me——"
"Hadn't they got leave to come to meet me?"