When she came to join the girls below, she said quietly:
“Girls, let’s give the school a surprise to-morrow. Let’s go and vote for Elizabeth Meeker, since so many of the class want her for president, and then prove to the rest that we can still have a good time during Commencement week. Father will let us use the grounds when we like and we can all have a part in the planning of the fun. I should just like to see if she really can make a class president as well as we girls from the Hill.”
And though the girls couldn’t understand why she had changed, yet they were glad to follow her lead.
That night Mary Waite sat before her desk in her pretty room on the Hill and looked again at the assignment which had been given to her—
“Study the pictures in Gallery Nine and bring to me the name of the picture and the artist who painted the one that speaks most plainly to you.”
And in no uncertain letters she wrote:
Christ in the Home of the Lowly.
By L’Hermitte
Mary Waite.