Chapter 14
Week 5, Instructor Calendar October 1898
The duties of a chaperon are very hard and unremitting, and sometimes very disagreeable. ~Mrs. John Sherwood
“I told you yesterday, Mr. Langdon, we had nothing to do with it!” Miss Lovelace cried.
They were all in the president’s office: Miss Lovelace and her friend Miss Gage, Randolph Maynard, Lady Principal Pomeroy, Charlotte, and Concordia. Although it was the largest staff office in Founder’s Hall, they were still crammed cheek-by-jowl in the space.
Concordia glanced over at Charlotte. Her weariness was evident in the dark circles under her eyes and the hollows in her cheeks. The high collar of her shirtwaist could not quite conceal the scrapes along her neck from her tumble.
Randolph Maynard held up a pouch that Concordia recog
