others, and self-restraint, that had never before occurred to Honor,
now began to take root and grow--feebly at first, but the seed was
there, and the fruit would come afterwards. It was Janie who put the
first suggestion into her mind that life was more than a mere
playground, and that other people have paramount claims on us, the
fulfilling of which can bring a purer joy than that of pleasing
ourselves; Janie who, by implying what a comfort an only daughter might
be to father, mother, and brothers, made her realize how utterly she
had so far failed to be anything but a care; and Janie whose high
ideals and aspirations raised future possibilities of helpfulness of
which she had not hitherto dreamt, for until she came to St. Chad's
Honor had not heard of girls taking up careers, or fitting themselves
for any special work.

"I don't mean earning one's own living," said Janie. "Neither you nor I
will probably ever have to do that, and Mother says it is hardly right
for women who have independent incomes to overcrowd professions, and
drive out those who are obliged to keep themselves. What I want is to
settle on some useful thing, and then to do it thoroughly. I've a large
family of cousins in town, and they all are so busy, each in a
different way. One has trained as a Princess Christian nurse, and now
goes three days a week to give help at a creche. She took me once to
see the babies; they were the very poorest of the poor, but were
beautifully clean, and so good. Beatrice simply loves them. Then
Millicent, the second girl, has learnt wood-carving and metal-work, and
takes a class at a Lads' Recreation Club. One of her boys has turned
out so clever that he has been sent to the Technical Schools to study
'applied arts'. Milly is tremendously proud of him, particularly as he
comes from such a wretched, lost, drunken home. Barbara is very
musical--she teaches singing at a Factory Girls' Club; and Mabel helps
with a Children's Happy Evening Society."

"But can you do those kinds of things in the country?" asked Honor.

"I'm going to try, when I leave school. I thought if I could learn
ambulance work I could have a 'First Aid' class for the village girls.
Most of them don't know how to dress a burn, or bind up a wound. I have
another scheme too."

"What's that?"

"It's so ambitious, I'd better not talk about it. Perhaps the ambulance
work will be enough for a beginning, and the other could follow. Well,
if you insist u