There was the Fairyland of the yard, too, softly aglow
with moving throngs of beautiful women and gallant men. But what Billy
remembered best of all was the exquisite harmony that came to her
through the hushed night air when the Glee Club sang Fair Harvard on the
steps of Holworthy Hall.
CHAPTER XXXV
SISTER KATE AGAIN
It was on the Sunday following Class Day that Mrs. Hartwell carried out
her determination to "speak to William." The West had not taken from
Kate her love of managing, and she thought she saw now a matter that
sorely needed her guiding hand.
William's thin face, anxious looks, and nervous manner had troubled
her ever since she came. Then one day, very suddenly, had come
enlightenment: William was in love--and with Billy.
Mrs. Hartwell watched William very closely after that. She saw his eyes
follow Billy fondly, yet anxiously. She saw his open joy at being with
her, and at any little attention, word, or look that the girl gave him.
She remembered, too, something that Bertram had said about William's
grief because Billy would not live at the Strata. She thought she saw
something else, also: that Billy was fond of William, but that William
did not know it; hence his frequent troubled scrutiny of her face.
Why these two should play at cross purposes Sister Kate could not
understand.
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