![]() ![]() Neither of them are in this country at all. “It was called Radcliffe-and then I went to Columbia. ![]() “But ma’am,” Poll had said, “I didn’t know them great places ever let a female in? Where was it you went?” Kathryn was the only woman she had ever heard of who had had that distinction. Poll, wistfully hungry for knowledge, insatiably curious, had soon discovered that the lady she served had been to a college. That dour and formidable woman went about her duties with a face of stone, discouraging conversation. Poll very quickly learned, though, not to try to share her enthusiasm with Elspeth Cameron. She was convinced that Mistress Radcliffe was the most beautiful, kindest, cleverest woman she had ever met. Young Polly Bradley, introduced into the household at Bennet Farm as abigail, sleeping on a truckle bed in one corner of Kathryn’s room, soon succumbed to a serious case of hero-worship. ![]()
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