"I suppose she thinks that hurts me.

Of course it isn't exactly pleasant, but I'm going to keep on speaking to her, just the same.

I am not angry, even if she is; although I have far greater cause to be." But before the close of the week Grace was destined to cross swords with Eleanor in earnest, and the toleration she had felt was swallowed up in righteous indignation.
During the winter, theatrical companies sometimes visited Oakdale for a week at a time, presenting, at popular prices, old worn-out plays and cheap melodramas.

These companies gave daily matinees as well as evening performances, and the more frivolous element of High School girls had in time past occasionally "skipped school" to spend the afternoon in the theatre.

By the girls, this form of truancy was considered a "lark," but Miss Thompson did not look at the matter in the same light, and disciplined the culprit so severely whenever she found this to be the cause of an afternoon's absence that the girls were slow to offend in this respect.
All this Eleanor had heard, among other things, from Edna Wright, but had paid little attention to it when Edna had told her.