Chapter 33
Week 11, Instructor Calendar December 1898
Let us make sure of the aesthetic and intellectual, the sympathetic and the genial, and sift out the pretentious and the impure. ~Mrs. John Sherwood
Concordia smothered a succession of yawns during chapel and breakfast the next morning. Judging by the shadows under Miss Smedley’s eyes, she had not slept well, either. After breakfast, Concordia motioned to the girl. “Shall we speak with the dean now?” She hoped Maynard was at his office. He had not been at chapel or breakfast.
Miss Lovelace got up from the table. “Alison told me what is happening this morning. I want to come too.”
Concordia took a breath to object, then noted Miss Smedley’s grateful expression. “All right, then. Come along.”
Dean Maynard sat at his desk, staring ou
