That would help wonderfully. This schoolgirl, probably
jealous of the superiority of grown-up young ladies, may be very much in
the way. I am sorry the case is not different."
In regard to the other point the old lady was very well satisfied, and
determined to go soon to see what success Mrs. Tolbridge had had.
About the middle of the next forenoon, Miss Panney tied her horse in
front of the Tolbridge house and entered unceremoniously, as she was in
the habit of doing. She found the doctor's wife standing by the
back-parlor window looking out on the garden. When the old lady had
seated herself she immediately proceeded to business.
"Well, Kitty," said she, "what sort of a time did you have yesterday?"
"A very discouraging and disagreeable one," said Mrs. Tolbridge. "I might
just as well have stayed at home."
"You don't mean to say," asked Miss Panney, "that nobody answered your
advertisement?"
"When I reached the rooms of the Non-Resident Club, where the applicants
were to call--"
"That's the first time," interrupted Miss Panney, "that I ever heard that
that Club was of the slightest use.
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