She could learn anything with just one look at it and she was terrible fond of reading . `` When I 'm talking about her like this it all comes back to me , just what she was like and how she looked and spoke and acted , and little ways she had of moving her hands and head . I declare it almost seems as if she was right here in this room instead of being over there in the churchyard . I wish you 'd light the lamp , Master . I feel kind of nervous . '' Eric rose and lighted the lamp , rather wondering at Mrs. Williamson 's unusual exhibition of nerves . She was generally so calm and composed . `` Thank you , Master . That 's better . I wo n't be fancying now that Margaret Gordon 's here listening to what I 'm saying . I had the feeling so strong a moment ago . `` I suppose you think I 'm a long while getting to Kilmeny , but I 'm coming to that . I did n't mean to talk so much about Margaret , but somehow my thoughts got taken up with her . `` Well , Margaret passed the Board and went to Queen 's Academy and got a teacher 's license . She passed pretty well up when she came out , but Janet told me she cried all night after the pass list came out because there were some ahead of her . `` She went to teach school over at Radnor . It was there she met a man named Ronald Fraser . Margaret had never had a beau before . She could have had any young man in Lindsay if she had wanted him , but she would n't look at one of them . They said it was because she thought nobody was good enough for her , but that was n't the way of it at all , Master .
I knew , XXXXX Margaret and I used to talk of those matters , as girls do .
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