Chapter 36
Week 14, Instructor Calendar, May 1896
Say, from whence
You owe this strange intelligence?
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The week that followed brought with it the usual classes, student appointments, grading, and more play rehearsal. Miss Pomeroy was sharing Concordia’s office now, as her own was in the fire-damaged wing. This simplified the necessary consultations between them regarding the costumes for the play, but unfortunately it made for crowded conditions, especially as Miss Pomeroy was rather slovenly. More and more of the room was being taken over by a jumble of fabric remnants, scissors, spools of thread. Concordia shoved aside the mess so that she could work at her desk while awaiting a student.
The boy who delivered mail and messages came in and dropped a packet of letters on her
