Marion repeated the story, and Aunt Baby was satisfied.
"It was a very different tale she told me. I thought her a nice young woman; but if that is her sort, the less we have to do with her, the better."
"Oh, well, Gerty is Gerty, and we all know her," said Marion. "I suppose there must needs be one contrary feather. I was the contrary feather when I was at home, wasn't I, Aunt Baby?"
"Well, I do not deny but you were a bit trying at times, but you were always my own darling, for all."
"That was because you were so good yourself. But now tell me about the girls. Row does Therese get on?"
"Very finely, I hear. Miss Oliver says she is as good a pupil as she has ever had in the school, and she is a great comfort to the old lady."
"I dare say. I wonder if Therese ever regrets that she did not go with Mrs. Tremaine?"
"Very likely she may think of it sometimes—it would hardly be human nature not to do so—but I don't believe she ever regrets it. I think, too, that Therese has some new idea in her head which reconciles her to the change in her plans. She and Aunt Christian have had a great many long talks together. If old Madame Duval is taken away, I should not wonder if Therese goes back with them."
"That ought to have been my part," said Marion, with a sigh. "But there is no use in thinking of it now. And how does Lizzy Gates flourish? She has only written to me once since I came away."
"She is much the same Lizzy, only I think she improves in her manners. She is not so headlong as she was. And you must know that Eliza Bridgeman has left Miss Wilkins."