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Book, page 31 / 232 and say she had no robe convenable," went on Mysie. "But then you took her to your own room, and washed her and mended her, so that she came out all right at luncheon, and nobody knew anything, but she thought that horrid woman guessed and tweaked her hair all the harder for it." "Poor child, she looked as if she were under a tyranny." "Have you seen her since?" "No; but Phyllis tells me she has burst forth into liberty, bicycles, and wild doings that would drive her parents to distraction if she dreamt of them." "How is Lady Phyllis? Did I not hear that the family had gone abroad for her health?" "Oh yes, and I went with them. They all had influenza, and were frightened, but it ended in our meeting with Franceska Vanderkist, the very most charming looking being I ever did see; and Ivinghoe had fallen in love with her when she was Miranda, and he married her like a real old hero. Do you remember Ivinghoe?" "No; I suppose he was one of an indistinguishable troop of schoolboys." "I remember Lord Rotherwood's good nature and fun when he met the bedraggled party," said Magdalen, smiling. "That is what every one remembers about him," said Lady Merrifield, smiling. "You have imported a large party of youth, Miss Prescott." "My young sisters," responded Magdalen; "but I shall soon part with Agatha; she is going to Oxford." "Indeed! To which College? I have a daughter at Oxford, and a niece just leaving Cambridge. Such is our lot in these days. No, not this one, but her elder sister Gillian is at Lady Catharine's." "I am going to St. Robert's," said Agatha, abruptly.
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