Oh, yes, she ought to tell; and yet—and yet——Bridget wore a white muslin dress with a long train. Her silver girdle was clasped round her waist. She went deliberately up to a rose tree in full flower, and, picking two or three half-opened buds, put them in her girdle.
"My dears," said Mrs. Freeman, answering the looks on all faces, "your young companion's extraordinary conduct can only be explained by the fact that she has never been at school before. I am going out to the garden to speak to her. You girls will now go as usual to your separate schoolrooms and commence study."
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Bridget's movements were so fleet that the head mistress had no time to intercept her; there was a flash of a white dress disappearing through the open window, and that was all."And we are not allowed to go out of the grounds by ourselves," cried several other voices.[Pg 33]
"But Mrs. Freeman said——"For the first time there was a faint hesitation in her manner.
CHAPTER I. CURIOSITY.