Although they hardly spoke about their former friend, Nora, Mary always thought of her. Though Nora had passed to the next class at the end of the previous session, they never moved along as the girl kept her distance.
Mary did not go to a boarding school like her elder brothers. Her parents insisted that as the last born and the only girl of the family, she had to be a day student, so she began to go to school from home.
However, Mildred was a border in the same school and because she was now a boarder, she decided that she and Mary were living different lives, thus they had no concrete reasons to be friends. That has shocked Mary .
You don't think we should be friends because you are now a boarder? What is special in being a border? After all, we are in the same class and we choose to come to this school together, why are you doing this too me?
But our experience and orientation now differ. We cannot blend properly again. Mildred said...
Mary was hurt. This was the second time a close friend would be telling her they could no longer be friends and each time, it has hurting but she decieded to accept fate and move on.