"Oh, come at once!" said Violet, "there has been an accident, and Evelyn is hurt. Bridget is with her. Come, come at once!""Caspar shied at something," she said.
"O Bridget!" exclaimed the little girls, starting back in affright.
"Don't you hear the clock?" exclaimed Dorothy, unconscious relief coming into her tones.
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Bridget was a fortnight at the school, and had more or less shaken down into her place, when the evening arrived on which Miss Percival was to return.
Janet turned away, and a moment later reached the door of the schoolroom, where she was joined by Olive and Ruth. "Come," she said to them, and the three girls disappeared, only too glad to vent their feelings in the passage outside the schoolroom. Dorothy Collingwood lingered behind her companions. "Never mind," she said to Biddy, "it is rude of Janet to leave you, but she is sometimes a little erratic in her movements. It is a way our Janey has, and of course no one is silly enough to mind her.""He'll be sorry he sent me; he'll be sorry he listened to Aunt Kathleen," she said to herself.
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Bridget uttered a faint sigh.
After a little pause, during which neither mistress nor pupil spoke, the pupil raised her head.
"Yes, Bridget, very nice—go and take your place, my dear. There, beside Janet May. Another morning I hope you will be in time for prayers. Of course, we make all allowances the first day. Take your place directly, breakfast is half over."