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Then, suddenly, after a fortnight, caston-on-Thames She was to appear at the Education Office of

that town on the following Thursday, for an intervieith the

Committee Her heart stood still She knew she would make the

Committee accept her Now she was afraid, now that her removal

was imminent Her heart quivered with fear and reluctance But

underneath her purpose was fixed

She passed shadowily through the day, unwilling to tell her

news to herfor her father Suspense and fear

were strong upon her She dreaded going to Kingston Her easy

drearasp of reality

And yet, as the afternoon wore away, the sweetness of the

dreaston-on-Thanity to her The shadow of history and the glaress enveloped her The palaces would be old and

darkened, the place of kings obscured Yet it was a place of

kings for her--Richard and Henry and Wolsey and Queen

Elizabeth She divined great laith noble trees, and

terraces whose steps the water washed softly, where the swans

soeous barge of the Queen float down, the crientle in the sunshine grouped on either

side waiting

"Sweet Tha cauine and alert