he had would have noted all this; but he saw and realized the transformation with a pang‚ÅÝ‚Äîsomething had gone; the innocence and wonder of the child, and in their place had grown up something to him incomprehensible and occult.
Miss Smith was not to be easily questioned on the subject. She took no hints and gave no information, and when once he hazarded some pointed questions she turned on him abruptly, observing acidly: “If I were you I’d think less of Zora and more of her work.”
Gradually, in his spiritual perplexity, Alwyn turned to Mary Cresswell. She was staying with the Colonel at Cresswell Oaks. Her coming South was supposed to be solely for reasons of health, and her appearance made this excuse plausible. She was lonely and restless, and naturally drawn toward the school. Her intercourse with Miss Smith was only formal, but her interest in Zora’s work grew. Down