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Mrs. Freeman took her unwilling hand, led her into Miss Patience's dull little sitting room, which only[Pg 63] looked out upon the back yard, and, shutting the door behind her, left her to her own meditations.The door was closed then, and Bridget O'Hara found herself alone."I don't mind your kissing me, Bridget, only does not it seem a little soon—I have not known you many minutes yet?"Bridget's arms were flung impulsively round her governess's neck, and then one hand was tucked within the good lady's arm.

"No, no—do forgive me!"

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The period at which this story begins was the middle of the summer term. There were no half-term holidays at the Court, but somehow the influence of holiday time had already got into the air. The young girls had tired themselves out with play, and the older ones lay about in hammocks, or strolled in twos or[Pg 2] threes up and down the wide gravel walk which separated the house from the gardens.

"Lost whom?" answered Janet in her tart voice.

"Well, if I must go, and if you really wish it. Come with me to my room, Dorothy. O Dolly, if you would sleep with me to-night!"

"I don't know how I can, Mrs. Freeman. I said at once, when I came to school and saw what kind of place it was, that I wouldn't obey the rules. They were so tiresome and silly; I didn't see the use of them."

"There, thank Heaven, I haven't killed her!" exclaimed Bridget.