Chapter 6
Week 3, Instructor Calendar, February 1898
There are many
events in the womb of time which will be delivered.
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The next morning brought the usual bustle of students dressing for classes, and a time-pressed Concordia gathering her lecture notes and graded themes. Drat. Where were her pages on Elizabethan drama?
There was a tap on her door.
“Enter!” she called. She hoped it wasn’t someone with a problem.
One of the students stuck her head in. “A lady to see you, Miss Wells. I know you’re leaving, and I told her so, but she was most insistent.”
Concordia grabbed her satchel and followed the girl into the hall, where the head of Hartford Settlement House waited.
“Martha, what a surprise!” Concordia exclaimed.
The woman’s worn face seemed more deeply lined than usual.
