And then Robin saw, out of the corner of her eye, the girl sitting there on a rock, eyes closed in the sunshine. She was peaceful, unbothered by the girls playing their loud games around her. Robin wanted to reach out and touch her, but she was so beautiful, even in the rough grey woolen dress and long plain plaint all of them wore. She seemed to transcend it somehow, the small smile crossing her lips, so like the Mary she had half-heartedly venerated in the chapel, but now wanting to give all of her worship to this radiant-
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