ine to see how it felt and did
one or two other little things of a similar kind. Otherwise her conduct
was admirable and her temper in those days was always contagiously good.
That attractiveness which Mr. Brumley felt, was already very manifest,
and a little hindered her in the attainment of other distinctions. Most
of her lessons were done for her by willing slaves, and they were happy
slaves because she abounded in rewarding kindnesses; but on the other
hand the study of English literature and music was almost forced upon
her by the zeal of the two visiting Professors of these subjects.

And at seventeen, which is the age when girls most despise the
boyishness of young men, she met Sir Isaac and filled him with an
invincible covetousness....

Sec.2

The school at Wimbledon was a large, hushed, faded place presided over
by a lady of hidden motives and great exterior calm named Miss Beeton
Clavier. She was handsome without any improper attractiveness, an
Associate in Arts of St. Andrew's University and a cousin of Mr. Blenker
of the _Old Country Gazette_. She was assisted by several resident
mistresses and two very carefully married visiting masters for music and
Shakespear, and playground and shrubbery and tennis-lawn were all quite
effectively hidden from the high-road. The curriculum included Latin
Grammar--nobody ever got to the reading of books in that formidable
tongue--French by an English lady who had been in France, Hanoverian
German by an irascible native, the more seemly aspects of English
history and literature, arithmetic, algebra, political economy and
drawing. There was no hockey played within the precincts, science was
taught without the clumsy apparatus or objectionable diagrams that are
now so common, and stress was laid upon the carriage of the young ladies
and the iniquity of speaking in raised voices. Miss Beeton Clavier
deprecated the modern "craze for examinations," and released from such
pressure her staff did not so much give courses of lessons as circle in
a thorough-looking and patient manner about their subjects. This
turn-spit quality was reflected in the school idiom; one did not learn
algebra or Latin or so-forth, one _did_ algebra, one was _put into_
Latin....

The girls went through this system of exercises and occupations,
evasively and as it were _sotto voce_, making friends, making enemies,
making love to one another, following instincts that urged them to find
out something a