"Mavis is so marvellously well now that we don't want to run any
risks, and Merle, too, strong though she is, will be better out of the
way of drains. We elders can take our chance."
To be temporarily transformed into boarders was a novel experience for
the girls. To Merle it meant an opportunity for making a much more
intimate acquaintance with her idol Miss Mitchell, with whom she would
now be at close quarters. To sit at the same table with her for meals
seemed an unspeakable privilege. Merle was at the age for enthusiastic
hero-worship, and in her eyes the popular mistress almost wore a halo.
That she bestowed no particular tokens of favour made the devotion none
the less, because it gave an added incentive for trying to win at least a
glance or a smile.
Though Merle's schoolgirl affections centred in Miss Mitchell, whose
modern, up-to-date, twentieth-century methods and opinions entirely
appealed to her, Mavis was glad to see something more of Miss Pollard and
Miss Fanny.
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