If you are to grow up to be a wise and useful and helpful
woman by and by, you must check this intense self-examination. Your
feelings are the natural feelings of a girl who has entered upon a
very charming life. You are meant to lead that life for the present;
you are meant to do your duty in it. Don't worry, my dear. Go back to
St. Benet's, and study well, and learn much, and gather plenty of
experience for the future. If you fret about what cannot be helped,
you will weaken your intellect and tire your heart. After all,
Prissie, though you give much thought to St. Benet's, and though its
ways are delightful to you, your love is still with the old friends,
is it not?"
"Even there I have failed," said Priscilla sadly. "There is a girl at
St. Benet's who has a strange power over me. I love her. I have a very
great love for her. She is not a happy girl, she is not a perfect
girl, but I would do anything-- anything in the wide world for her."
"And you would do anything for us, too?"
"Oh, yes, yes."
"And, though you don't think it, your love for us is stronger than
your love for her. There is a freshness about the new love which
fascinates you, but the old is the stronger.
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