"Here I am back at school in our
sunshiny old south room in Baxter Hall, with the same jolly set of
girls popping their heads out of their doors, all along the corridor,
to joke with each other; the same old teachers and furniture and
surroundings; the same dear old everything, with one exception--my old
roommate.
"I know you are dying to hear about my new roommate. She is a freshman
by the name of Susannah Talbot, but we have never called her that
since the first day. You will find her photograph enclosed, and can
see for yourself what a shy little rabbit she is.
"Elsie Gayland came into our room while I was showing Susannah where
to put her things as she unpacked. You know how regardlessly outspoken
Elsie is, and how thoroughly saturated with her music. She is worse
than ever this year, and talks almost entirely in musical terms.
"'How are you two going to chord?' she said, abruptly, to Susannah.
'If Sophia were a sheet of music, she would be marked on every score,
_Fortissimo_, because she is so forcible and aggressive. But you are
just the opposite; it seems to me that _Timoroso_ would just suit you.
You do not object to a nickname, I hope? Everybody has to put up with
one here.'
"Susannah blushed and managed to stammer out that she didn't mind, and
ever since then she has been 'Timoroso' to us all.
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