But when it came time for the Board to meet, Miss Fanny, it seemed, had resigned. Aunt Louise read it out of the paper at breakfast.
“How strange—” said Aunt Louise.
“Not at all,” said Uncle Charlie.
Aunt Louise said, “Oh!” She was reading on down the column.
“—resignation by request, because the Board, in recognition of her merit and record as Teacher, has appointed her Principal of the new school on Elm Street.”
“But she’s not a man,” said Emmy Lou when it had been explained to her. Emmy Lou was bewildered.
“It’s a departure,” said Uncle Charlie.
“Don’t tease her, Charlie,” said Aunt Cordelia.
Emmy Lou felt troubled; she liked Miss Fanny; she could not bear to contemplate her in the guise of Principal. One could never like Miss Fanny then any more.
Miss Fanny’s mamma had cried because Miss Fanny was a teacher, Emmy Lou remembered. But that was nothing to this.