who chanced to be drawn to Mrs. Frankland's first course of
Bible readings, and who had listened with zest, was Phillida Callender.
Phillida's was a temperament different from Mrs Frankland's. The common
point at which they touched was religious enthusiasm. Mrs. Frankland's
enthusiasms translated themselves instantly into eloquent expression;
she was an instrument richly toned that gave forth melody of joy or
sorrow when smitten by emotion. Phillida was very susceptible to her
congenial eloquence, but hers was essentially the higher nature, and
Mrs. Frankland's religious passion, when once it reached Phillida, was
transformed into practical endeavor. Mrs. Frankland was quite content to
embody her ideals in felicitous speech, and cease; Phillida Callender
labored day and night to make her ideals actual. Mrs. Frankland had no
inclination or qualification for grappling with such thorny problems as
the Mackerelville Mission afforded. It was enough for her to play the
martial music which nerved others for the strife.

It often happens that the superior nature is dominated by one not its
equal. Phillida did not question the superlative excellence of Mrs.
Frankland, from whom she drew so many inspirations. That eloquent lady
in turn admired and loved Phillida as a model disciple. Phillida drew
Mrs. Hilbrough to the readings, and Mrs. Frankland bestowed on that lady
all the affectionate attention her immortal soul and worldly position
entitled her to, and under Mrs. Frankland's influence Mrs. Hilbrough
became more religious without becoming less worldly. For nothing could
have seemed more proper and laudable to Mrs. Hilbrough than the steady
pursuit of great connections appropriate to her husband's wealth.

Mrs. Frankland's imagination had been moved by her success. It was not
only a religious but a social triumph. Some of the rich had come, and it
was in the nature of an orator of Mrs. Frankland's type to love any
association with magnificence. Her figures of speech were richly draped;
her imagination delighted in the grandiose. The same impulse which
carried her easily from drab Quakerism to stained-glass Episcopalianism
now moved her to desire that her ministry might lead her to the great,
for such an association seemed to glorify the cause she had at heart.
She did not think of her purpose nakedly; she was an artist in drapery,
and her ideas never presented themselves in the nude; she was indeed
quite incapable of seeing th