"But that was a long time ago, Marion. Kitty has not been in a scrape in school for more than two years. I don't mean, of course, that she never does wrong, but I do think she tries to be a consistent Christian."
"Your geese are all swans, Julia."
"Well, that is better than thinking all my swans geese. But, Marion, if you really want to try teaching, why don't you ask Mr. McGregor to let you have Emily Sibley's class? You know she won't be here after this Sunday, and you couldn't wish for a nicer class than that."
"I mean to ask him about it this very day," said Marion.
"I wonder what old Mr. McGregor meant by what he said to me this morning?" thought Therese, as she brushed away a few tears, "I'm sure my lot is a hard one enough, and I don't see any best to be made of it. I ought not to say I am left, either, I suppose, when I have so many good friends. I wonder if that was what he meant?"
[CHAPTER V.]
LONG TALKS.
AS Marion walked home from Sunday school, she resolved to ask Aunt Christian about Rachel "and all the rest of it," as she said, rather contemptuously.
"I might have had the first news to tell the girls if I had had any wit. How stupid they must have thought me not to know a single thing about it! And my watch, too! It was so silly in me to look at it so many times, as if I had never seen one before. I saw Mrs. Bartlett smile, I know. I don't believe Kitty thinks any more of hers than if it were a handkerchief. I suppose her aunt in Paris sent her the diamond-set watch. I would give a great deal to know whether Kitty really is proud of her grand rich relations; though as to that, her connections are not so grand as ours. Just think! The duke himself is a kind of cousin of ours."
And then Marion fell into a kind of reverie or waking dream, in which she represented herself as going abroad, making the acquaintance of dukes and other titled people, marrying some great personage—she did not quite decide whether he should be a prince or some English nobleman—and finally meeting Kitty Tremaine and patronizing her graciously.