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Perhaps an insufficient quality of food may have tended to this asceticism . He generally avoided Clytie ; but one evening , when she returned to the schoolhouse after something she had forgotten , and did not find it until the master walked home with her , I hear that he endeavored to make himself particularly agreeable -- partly from the fact , I imagine , that his conduct was adding gall and bitterness to the already overcharged hearts of Clytemnestra 's admirers . The morning after this affecting episode Mliss did not come to school . Noon came , but not Mliss . Questioning Clytie on the subject , it appeared that they had left the school together , but the willful Mliss had taken another road . The afternoon brought her not . In the evening he called on Mrs. Morpher , whose motherly heart was really alarmed .