Her chum and roommate , Edith Wilmer , was sitting on the bed watching her in that calm disinterested fashion peculiarly maddening to a bewildered packer . `` It does seem too provoking , '' said Katherine , as she tugged at an obstinate shawl strap , `` that Ned should be transferred here now , just when I 'm going away . The powers that be might have waited until vacation was over . Ned wo n't know a soul here and he 'll be horribly lonesome . '' `` I 'll do my best to befriend him , with your permission , '' said Edith consolingly . `` Oh , I know . You 're a special Providence , Ede . Ned will be up tonight first thing , of course , and I 'll introduce him . Try to keep the poor fellow amused until I get back . Two months ! Just fancy ! And Aunt Elizabeth wo n't abate one jot or tittle of the time I promised to stay with her . Harbour Hill is so frightfully dull , too . '' Then the talk drifted around to Edith 's affairs . She was engaged to a certain Sidney Keith , who was a professor in some college . `` I do n't expect to see much of Sidney this summer , '' said Edith . `` He 's writing another book . He is so terribly addicted to literature . '' `` How lovely , '' sighed Katherine , who had aspirations in that line herself . `` If only Ned were like him I should be perfectly happy .
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