As out of gate, and in at gate again,

They wavered,—she was lady there for life:

And, after life—I hope, a white success

Of some sort, wheresoever life resume

School interrupted by vacation—death;

Seeing that home she goes with prize in hand,

Confirmed the Châtelaine of Clairvaux.

True,

Such prize fades soon to insignificance.

Though she have eaten her Miranda up,