SCHOOL
The days crawled by during the next two weeks.
“I hate them so by night, I want to shove them off into to-morrow by main force,” Jane told Marian complainingly, the third day after Ernest and the girls had gone.
“You’ll be all right in a day or two. It’s always hardest at first,” Marian consoled her.
“I suppose it doesn’t make any difference whether I’m all right or all wrong–the folks have gone just the same.”
“And you might as well make the best—”
“Oh, yes, I might as well! ‘Count your blessings, my brethren, etc.’ I’ve done counted ’em till I’m sick of hearing about them! Marian, if you don’t find me something new to do I shall bust!”
274Marian was particularly busy that morning and not so patient as usual.
She waved her hand around the room ironically. “I shall be charmed, Chicken Little, will you finish these dishes or sweep the sitting room or sew on that dress of Jilly’s? I can furnish you an endless variety to choose from.”