Chapter 35
Week 13, Instructor Calendar, April 1896
Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?
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“Signorina Wells! Do come in,” Lucia Bellini said eagerly, when the maid had shown Concordia up to the second floor of DeLacey House.
“It is so kind of you, Miss Bellini, to help me in this way.”
Concordia looked around the room, a standard size for the senior faculty but much larger than her own, as Miss Bellini opened an enormous armoire of ornately carved walnut. Such a piece of furniture would never fit in her tiny bedroom at Willow Cottage. The rest of the furnishings in Miss Bellini’s rooms were typical of faculty quarters. Miss Bellini had personalized the space with photographs of stiffly-posed family groups, carefully placed in gilded frames, and a tapestry wall hanging that
