After you are seventeen I will get you a suitable chaperon and you
shall live in London."
This scheme, however, was not carried out. For, shortly after her
seventeenth birthday, Maggie Oliphant met a girl whose beauty and
brilliance were equal to her own, whose nature was stronger and who
had been carefully trained in heart and mind while Maggie had been
neglected. Miss Lee was going through a course of training at St.
Benet's College for Women at Kingsdene. She was an uncommon girl in
every sense of the word. The expression of her lovely face was as
piquant as its features were beautiful; her eyes were dark as night;
they also possessed the depth of the tenderest, sweetest summer night,
subjugating all those who came in contact with her. Annabel Lee won
Maggie's warmest affections at once; she determined to join her friend
at St. Benet's. She spoke with ineffable scorn of her London season
and resolved, with that enthusiasm which was the strongest part of her
nature, to become a student in reality. Under Annabel's guidance she
took up the course of study which was necessary to enable her to pass
her entrance examination. She acquitted herself well, for her
abilities were of the highest order, and entered the college with
eclat.
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