This made an impression upon all minds that "sweet Mrs. Grey," with her spirit of self-sacrifice, had left town at this most interesting period for no other reason than to give up her quarters to her friends.
Lastly, Mary Grey went to her pastor and obtained from him a letter to the pastor of St. John's Church in Richmond.
Furnished with this, she would obtain entrance into the most respectable society in the city, if she desired to do so.
On the third day from this, Mrs. Grey left Charlottesville for Richmond.
Chapter XV.
AN OLD FACE REAPPEARS.
What the Carnival is to Rome, and the Derby is to London, the Commencement week of its great University is to the little country town of Charlottesville.
It is looked forward to for weeks and months. A few days previous to Commencement week the little town begins to fill. The hotels and boarding-houses are crowded with the relatives and friends of the students and professors, and even with numbers of the country gentry, who though they may have no relative at the University yet take an interest in the proceedings of Commencement week.
Emma Cavendish and her friends were therefore peculiarly fortunate in having had comfortable apartments pre-engaged for them.