Clara Hopgood

CLARA HOPGOOD cuse, and her husband and daughters never, by word or smile, gave her the least reason to suppose that they did not believe her Clara and Madge went first to an English day-school, and Clara went straight from this school to Germany, but Madges course was a little different. She was not very well, and it was decided that she should have at least a twelvemonth in a boardingschool at Brighton before going abroad. It had been very highly recommended, but the head-mistress was Low Church and aggressive. Mr Hopgood, far away from the High and Low Church controversy, came to the conclusion that, in Madges case, the theology would have no effect on her. It was quite impossible, moreover, to find a school which would be just what he could wish it to be. Madge, accordingly, was sent to Brighton, and was introduced into a new world. She was just beginning to ask herself why certain things