The Wedding Guest

Why, soon after you went away, you know, I wrote to you that she had gone to the–School. You know her parents are willing to do everything for her–and Mary was very ambitious. They are hard students at that school. Mary told me she studied from eight to ten hours a day. She always got sick before examination, and had to send home for lots of pills. I remember Mrs. Marvel once sending her four boxes of Brandreth’s at a time. But she took the first honours. At the end of her first term, she came home, looking, as you say, as if she had had a fever.