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"The big room," said Miss Schofield, "ha, it's misery to be

in it!"

She too spoke with bitterness She too lived in the

ignominious position of an upper servant hated by the master

above and the class beneath She was, she knew, liable to attack

from either side at any minute, or from both at once, for the

authorities would listen to the corel authority, the teacher

So there was a hard, bitter withholding in Maggie Schofield

even as she poured out her savoury etarian hot-pot," said Miss Schofield "Would you

like to try it?"

"I should love to," said Ursula

Her own dinner seely beside this savoury,

clean dish

"I've never eaten vegetarian things," she said "But I should

think they can be good"

"I'ie, "I don't like to

bring meat to school"

"No," said Ursula, "I don't think I do either"

And again her soul rang an answer to a new refines were as nice as this, she

would be glad to escape the slight uncleanness of ood!" she cried

"Yes," said Miss Schofield, and she proceeded to tell her the

receipt The two girls passed on to talk about theh School, and about her

a little She felt so poor here, in this

ugly place Miss Schofield listened with brooding, handsoot to soth

"I didn't knohat it was like," said Ursula,