"She has fine brains.

Whatever she wants in an intellectual way she can come at easily." Mary, indeed, took her B.A.without over-much burning of the midnight oil.

Afterwards she always spoke with the tenderest affection of her old school-days.

She recalled with delight the spacious class-rooms, the old garden with its great woodland trees, and the tiny rooms of the girls who were in residence at the College, with their quaint and pretty adornments--the place of so much young _camaraderie_ and soaring ambition and happy emulation.

"I can hardly remember that anyone was ever unkind," she used to say long afterwards.
As a matter of fact, the band of elder students with whom Mary was connected in her latter days at the College had a generous enthusiasm for her beauty, taking it as in a sense a credit to themselves.
"You will be a living answer to them," said Jessie Baynes, who was small and plain-looking, "when they say that learned women are always ugly." And the whole of the class applauded her speech.
"I shall love to see you in your cap and gown," Jessie went on, firing at the picture in her own imagination.