Chapter 25
Week 8, Instructor Calendar, March/April 1898
Concordia returned to Willow Cottage, where a flurry of packing was underway.
“Don’t take too much,” Concordia warned, as she caught sight of one girl lugging two suitcases from the storeroom, “it’s only a week, after all.”
“Ooh, but Miss Wells,” she said excitedly, “I’ve been invited to Miss Smedley’s country house! I’ll need my best dresses, and Mabel has promised to lend me her riding outfit, and—”
“Have a wonderful time,” Concordia said, cutting across what promised to be a lengthy description of the young lady’s wardrobe necessities. “Have you seen Ruby?”
“In her room, packing.”
“Packing?” Ruby never left for the spring recess.
Concordia went down the hall to the bedroom behind the kitchen and knocked.
“Ruby?”
“Come o
