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It would have been impossible for a much colder heart than Dorothy Collingwood's to resist her.The girls took their places at the table—grace was said, and the meal began.She scrutinized Olive's face now, a slightly satirical expression hovering round her somewhat thin lips.

"Spare me, my dear. I really am in too great a hurry to hear a list of your wardrobe. Is it possible that your father sent you to school with all that heap of finery, and nothing sensible to wear?"

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She did not attempt to rise to her feet, however, and Mrs. Freeman was far too much absorbed to take any further notice of her."Look, dear," said the governess. "What is that distant speck? I am so terribly near-sighted that I cannot make out whether it is a carriage or cart of some sort."

"I suppose I may go," she said, "if that's all you have got to say?"

"He'll be sorry he sent me; he'll be sorry he listened to Aunt Kathleen," she said to herself.

"Patience," said Mrs. Freeman, from her end of the supper table, "I think we have all finished. Will you say grace?"