teacher said. Lucy would have considerable property when he died; he'd
like her to have all the advantages possible; and--very suddenly--
Calvin decided to send her away to school, to Stanwick, the small city
to and from which the Greenstream stage drove.

She returned from her first term at Christmas, full of her experiences
with teachers and friends, to which Ettie and he listened with absorbed
attention. Now she seemed farther from him than before; and he saw that
a likeness to Hannah was increasing; not in appearance--though that was
not dissimilar--but in the quality that had established Hannah's
difference from other girls, the quality for which he had never found a
name. The assumptions of Lucy's childhood had become strongly marked
preferences for the flowers of existence, the ease of the portico
rather than the homely labor of the back of the house.

Neither his sister nor he resented this or felt that Lucy was evading
her just duties; rather they enjoyed its difference from their own
practical beings and affairs. They could afford to have her in fresh
laundered frills and they secretly enjoyed the manner in which she
instructed them in social conventions.

At her home-coming for the summer she brought to an end the meals in
the kitchen; but when she left once more for Stanwick and school Ettie
and Calvin without remark drifted back to the comfortable convenience
of the table near the cooking stove.

This period of Lucy's experience at an end she arrived in Greenstream
on a hot still June evening. Neither Calvin nor his sister had been
able to go to Stanwick for the school commencement, and Calvin had been
too late to meet the stage. After the refreshing cold water in the