Of the quiet, studious room;
Rows of desks and dimpled faces,
Smiling in accustomed places,
Through the school the whisper ran:
‘Nellie flirted with a man!’
“Oh, what visions of romance
Through their giddy fancies dance!
And the world beyond the curtain
Glimmered dazzling, vague, uncertain.
Dreams of love and lovers blent