"Yes; does not a mistress always command her pupils?"Olive left the room with slow, unwilling footsteps, and Janet bent her head over the copy of Molière she was studying."Pretty," interrupted Janet, scorn curling her lip.
"I don't mean that sort of learning, Bridget. I mean what you acquire from books—grammar, French, music."
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"My dear, you have been ill, which accounts for your nervousness. But in any case a person with the stoutest nerves may be pardoned for fainting if she is flung out of a carriage. I cannot imagine how you escaped as you have done."The common room to which she conducted Miss O'Hara was entirely for the use of the elder girls; the girls of the middle and the lower school had other[Pg 20] rooms to amuse themselves in. But this large, luxuriously furnished apartment was entirely given up to the sixth and fifth-form schoolgirls.
Dorothy detached herself from Bridget's clinging arm, and ran quickly up the sloping lawn.
There was a movement of chairs, and a general rising.
She looked at her friend with a cool, critical eye.
"Thank God for that, my darling," said Mrs. Freeman. She put her arm round the young girl, kissed her tenderly, and drew her away from Bridget.