She meant to offer her plans in this
competition. Through friends she had secured a comfortable place
in which to live and work. She need undergo no hardships in
searching for a home, in clothing herself, in paying for
instruction in the course in architecture she meant to pursue.
Concerning Linda she could not resist a feeling of exultation.
Linda was one of the friends in Lilac Valley about whom Marian
could think wholeheartedly and lovingly. Sometimes she had been
on the point of making a suggestion to Linda, and then she had
contented herself with waiting in the thought that very soon
there must come to the girl a proper sense of her position and
her rights. The experience of the previous night taught Marian
that Linda had arrived. She would no longer be the compliant
little sister who would run Eileen's errands, wait upon her
guests and wear disreputable clothing. When Linda reached a
point where she was capable of the performance of the previous
night, Marian knew that she would proceed to live up to her blue
china in every ramification of life. She did not know exactly
how Linda would follow up the assertion of her rights that she
had made, but she did know that in some way she would follow it
up, because Linda was a very close reproduction of her father.
She had been almost constantly with him during his life, very
much alone since his death. She was a busy young person. From
Marian's windows she had watched the business of carrying on the
wild-flower garden that Linda and her father had begun.
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