Her pupils undoubtedly progressed, although they did not have the blind love and admiration which pupils usually have for a beautiful teacher.

To this there was one exception.
Miss Farrel always smiled, never frowned or reprimanded.

It was said that Miss Farrel had better government than Miss Florence Dean, the other assistant.

Miss Dean was plain and saturnine, and had no difficulty in obtaining a good boarding-place, even with the mother of a marriageable daughter, who had taken her in with far-sighted alacrity.

She dreamed of business calls concerning school matters, which Mr.Horace Allen, the principal, might be obliged to make, and she planned to have her daughter, who was a very pretty girl, in evidence.