CHAPTER XXIV 



WOVEN INTO CHILD NATURE 



"Is this Mrs. Durant?" inquired a caller, ris- 

 ing as the lady of the house entered the drawing- 

 room. 



" Yes, and you are Miss Plimpton, my Dorothy's 

 teacher. I am glad to see you. I should have 

 known you at once, even if you had not sent up 

 your card, and in spite of the fact that this is the 

 first time I have had the pleasure of meeting you." 



" How is that ? " surprisingly inquired the 

 teacher. " I feel as though I were a perfect stran- 

 ger, except to my boarding-mistress and the little 

 folks in school. I have been so busy that this is 

 my first call in Van Wert, but I have been here 

 only three weeks." 



" Let me explain that perhaps you haven't 

 known just what you have been doing. I see 

 that you are not aware that you have been call- 

 ing on about forty families every day ; that is, 

 if all your pupils are like my little Dorothy. It 

 is in this way that you multiply yourself. Dor- 

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