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All the preparations for school had been made, and it was the day before I was to leave. My trunks -- I had several now -- were packed. Augusta was coming too, and so was Hermione. Hermione had come to spend the last evening with us in the old house behind the great college. She was very much interested and highly pleased.
The last fortnight of my time at home had gone on wings. Lady Lilian St Leger had lifted me into a new world. She was a daring, bright, true-hearted girl. She did not mind treating me with a sort of playful lightness which was very refreshing after the stifling time I had spent in that awful drawing-room; but she also had said good-bye.