Dear
Maggie! Whatever happens, I must always-- always love her."
Nancy was walking slowly down the corridor when a room-door was gently
opened and the sweet, childish, innocent face of Rosalind peeped out.
"Nancy, is that you? Do, for Heaven's sake, come in and speak to me
for a moment."
"What about, Rosalind? I have only a minute or two to spare. My German
lecture is to begin immediately."
"Oh, what does that signify? You don't know the awful trouble we've
got into."
"You mean about the auction?"
"Yes-- yes; so you have heard?"
"Of course I've heard. If that is all, Rosalind, I cannot wait to
discuss the matter now. I am very sorry for you, of course, but as I
said to Maggie, why did you do it?"
"Oh, you've been talking to Miss Oliphant? Thank goodness she'll have
to answer for her sins as well as the rest of us."
"Maggie is my friend, so you need not abuse her, Rosalind."
"Lucky for her that she has got one true friend!" retorted Rosalind.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean what I say. Maggie is making such a fool of herself that we
are all laughing at her behind her back."
"Indeed? I fail to understand you."
"You are being made a fool of, too, Nancy. Oh, I did think you'd have
had more sense."
"How? Speak.
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