"I'm going into Oxford, Mrs. Grey."
"Well, that is a charming idea—charming, yes."
"But I'll be back for Pauline's birthday."
"Charming—charming," Mrs. Grey still declared. "The Rector will have forgotten all about it by then."
So Guy left Pauline for a week, and perhaps for more than a week. Margaret and Monica came home next day, and really, she thought, it was upsetting all the old ways of her life, when she found herself not very much interested in what they had been doing. Miss Verney with her ecstatic praise of Guy was better company; but next morning her first love-letter arrived, and she could not resist peeping into it at breakfast.
99 ST. GILES
OXFORD
April 18.
My adored Pauline,
It's really all I can do to stay in Oxford. Even Fane seems dull and though his rooms are jolly, I long for you.
Have I told you what you are to me? Have I once been able to tell you....