The two Miss Rays
seem to be happy to escort her anywhere, and that is a sort of
comfort to Mrs. Brownlow. Miss Ray keeps us informed of their
comings and goings, for Janet seldom deigns to write."
"It is very strange that there should be such alienation, and from
such a mother."
"The two characters are as unlike as can be, but I have always
thought there must be some cause that no one but Janet herself could
perhaps explain. I cannot help thinking that she has some definite
purpose in this study of medicine; for I do not think it is for the
sake either of the emancipation of women or of general philanthropy.
They must be an odd party. Miss Ray attends to the household
matters, mends the clothes, and pays the bills. Nita sketches, reads
at the libraries, and talks at the table d'hote, like a strong-minded
woman, as she is; and Janet goes her own way. Bobus looked in on
them once and described them to us with great gusto."
There Mary's face became illuminated as a step approached, and a
gentleman with grizzled hair, and a thoughtful, gentle face came out,
and sat down on her other side.
He had been college tutor to her brother, though not much older, and
had stayed on at Oxford, till two years back he had taken a much
neglected living.
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