Broken Barriers

by Meredith Nicholson

As the train sped through the night Grace Durland decided that after all it didn’t matter so much! She had parted tearfully from the girls at the sorority house and equally poignant had been the goodbyes to her friends among the faculty; but now that it was all over she was surprised and a little mystified that she had so quickly recovered from her disappointment. Bitterness had welled in her heart at the first reading of her mother’s letter calling her home.