As they settled into their seats in the Reyburn train Miss Kendal said,
"It's a pity we couldn't go to the lecture."
She leaned back, tired, in her corner. She closed her eyes.
Mary opened Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
The beginning had begun.
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I.
"What are you reading, Mary?"
"The New Testament…. Extraordinary how interesting it is."
"Interesting!"
"Frightfully interesting."