I couldn't have forgiven them if they had made you pay a price for your learning." When Mary received her B.A.degree she was applauded more rapturously from the gallery than even the new Fellow, Miss Jessica Baynes, B.A., who knew little enough about her own reception, since, as she left the dais, she had glanced up and made out her mother's little nutcracker face, so like her own, in one of the circles of faces overhead.
There was a little group in the balcony watching Mary with fond pride.
Lady Anne Hamilton's face shone again as the tall, slender young figure went up amid the furious applause of the undergraduates, through which the general clapping of hands could hardly be heard.

Behind Lady Anne were Mary's father and stepmother.

Lady Anne had taken care that they should not be forgotten in the distribution of tickets.

Walter Gray looked on quietly.

He was very proud of his girl; but he had, perhaps, too great a wisdom to set much store by the plaudits of the many.