The Leader

Margaret and Bella were very devoted to one another but although her sister was the elder by two years it was Margaret who took the lead. At the Catholic school they attended, the Sisters of Mercy found her a quiet, painstaking, well-behaved child, always clean and neat; 'a pale-faced, large-eyed little mouse with a sweet expression.' Her little companions liked her as being kind and helpful, jolly and full of fun. She tried however to avoid rude, ill-mannered children.

'I don't think we were meant to mix with coarse people' she would say to Bella, adding, 'but maybe that is just pride.'