There she should
continue to live; why need this purely personal compact between
them two make any difference in her daily habits? She would go
on with her school-work for the present, as usual. Oh, no, she
certainly didn't intend to notify the head-mistress of the school
or any one else, of her altered position. It was no alteration of
position at all, so far as she was concerned; merely the addition
to life of a new and very dear and natural friendship. Herminia
took her own point of view so instinctively indeed,--lived so
wrapped in an ideal world of her own and the future's,--that Alan
was often quite alarmed in his soul when he thought of the rude
awakening that no doubt awaited her. Yet whenever he hinted it to
her with all possible delicacy, she seemed so perfectly prepared
for the worst the world could do, so fixed and resolved in her
intention of martyrdom, that he had no argument left, and could
only sigh over her.
It was not, she explained to him further, that she wished to
conceal anything. The least tinge of concealment was wholly alien
to that frank fresh nature.
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