Then she touched a pretty bell that stood on the table and Miss Aldred answered the summons.
"Grace, will you take Miss Grant through the schoolrooms?" she asked, and Miss Aldred smiled as she gave a gesture of assent.
Helen followed her guide. This was the general assembly room, here the different recitation rooms, here the drawing classes met and there were casts and busts and figures in plaster, and several very well executed paintings and drawings embellished the walls. Then the music room, and the study room had a piano in it also.
Helen was a trifle appalled. Education had seemed a rather simple thing at Hope. She sighed as she glanced up at Miss Grace.
"Oh, where is there time to learn it all?" she asked with a sinking at the heart.
"You do not have to learn it in one day or one week," was the smiling answer. "And every day it grows easier."
"But—music! I've never even touched a piano."
"Do you sing?"
"Yes, a few little songs and Sunday hymns. And sometimes out of doors I try to catch the bird notes. They are no special tunes, you know, but I always have to stop at the warble," and she laughed brightly.
Miss Grace nodded, rather amused.