Suddenly grown up, she floated round the city on a cloud of delight. It was not merely her own self-confidence which told her that she had emerged at last from the schoolroom, but the manner in which everyone treated her. True, she was still required to be accompanied everywhere by Miss Jarrold, but that was only because she had no mother. Miss Jarrold herself instinctively recognized a difference in her role, transforming herself from a governess into a companion during the course of the journey from Castlemere. Magdalen was to hold its ball on the Thursday of Eights Week, and Lucy had not allowed Archie to forget his promise to invite her. Her grandfather, who proposed to go with her to Oxford, had in good time given her a generous present of money to be spent on new clothes, telling her gruffly that she was to be a credit to her brother and hang the expense. So on this calm, warm June night of the ball she had put up her golden hair and worn her golden dress and had been the prettiest girl at the dance.
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