An Unsuitable Friendship

Janetta was the music governess—a brown little thing of no particular importance, and

Margaret Adair was a beauty and an heiress, and the only daughter of people who

thought themselves very distinguished indeed; so that the two had not, you might think,

very much in common, and were not likely to be attracted one to the other. Yet, in spite

of differing circumstances, they were close friends and allies; and had been such ever

since they were together at the same fashionable school where Miss Adair was the

petted favorite of all, and Janetta Colwyn was the pupil-teacher in the shabbiest of

frocks, who got all the snubbing and did most of the hard work. And great offence was

given in several directions by Miss Adair's attachment to poor little Janetta.

"It is an unsuitable friendship," Miss Polehampton, the principal of the school, observed

on more than one occasion, "and I am sure I do not know how Lady Caroline will like

it.