"And the best of having such a chum is I needn't leave you behind when I leave school.
You are one thing that I don't have to give up." That picture was the last thing she put into her trunk.

She left it hanging on the wall while she did all the rest of her packing, that she might glance at it now and then.

It helped wonderfully to remember that Lloyd had had the same experience.

Madam Chartley came in while she was in the midst of her preparations for leaving, glad to find her making them with her usual energy and interest When in answer to her offers of assistance Mary assured her there was nothing any one could do, she said, "I'll not stay then, except to say one thing that I may not have opportunity for later." She paused and laid her hands on Mary's shoulders, looking down at her searchingly and kindly.
"I want you to know this--that I have never had a pupil whom I parted from as reluctantly as I shall part from you.

Your enthusiasm and love of school have been a joy to your teachers and an inspiration to every girl in Warwick Hall.