Chapter 14: An Awakening

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌⁠The sore of that jealousy still smarted in the girl's mind as she turned her pillow restlessly.... She could not sleep until long after the starlings had been twittering and the milk-carts rattling by in the suburban road outside. She awoke, dispirited. She came down late for breakfast; Leslie had already gone off to her old lady in Highgate. Over the disordered breakfast-table Miss Armitage was m