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`` Perhaps she expects to teach , '' returned Miss Parks , in her most courteous tone , as she turned the diamond upon her engagement finger . `` I hope she may teach -- this class , '' retorted the master with equal courtesy . Miss Parks smiled at Marjorie with her lovely eyes and acknowledged the point of the master 's remark with a slight inclination of her pretty head . At the noon intermission a knot of the girls gathered around Marjorie 's chair ; Emma Downs took the volume of `` Bridgewater Treatises '' out of her hand and marched across the room to the book case with it , the others clapped their hands and shouted . `` Now we 'll make her talk , '' said Ella Truman . `` She is a queen in the midst of her court . '' `` She is n't tall enough , '' declared Maria Denyse .