Had she anything to say, in the way of objection?
Nothing! In that case, would she sign the Rules?
Yes! When the time came for supper, she excused herself, just like a child.
'I feel very tired; may I go to bed ?' The unmarried women in the same dormitory with her anticipated some romantic confession when she grew used to her new friends.

They proved to be wrong.

'My life has been one long disappointment,' was all she said.

'You will do me a kindness if you will take me as I am, and not ask me to talk about myself.' There was nothing sulky or ungracious in the expression of her wish to keep her own secret.

A kinder and sweeter woman--never thinking of herself, always considerate of others--never lived.