by watching it you can keep it
down nearly all the time. ITS PRESENCE IS YOUR LIMIT. Your reform will
never quite reach perfection, for your temper will beat you now and
then, but you come near enough. You have made valuable progress and can
make more. There IS use in training. Immense use. Presently you will
reach a new stage of development, then your progress will be easier;
will proceed on a simpler basis, anyway.

Y.M. Explain.

O.M. You keep back your scoldings now, to please YOURSELF by pleasing
your MOTHER; presently the mere triumphing over your temper will delight
your vanity and confer a more delicious pleasure and satisfaction upon
you than even the approbation of your MOTHER confers upon you now. You
will then labor for yourself directly and at FIRST HAND, not by the
roundabout way through your mother. It simplifies the matter, and it
also strengthens the impulse.

Y.M. Ah, dear! But I sha'n't ever reach the point where I will spare the
girl for HER sake PRIMARILY, not mine?

O.M. Why--yes. In heaven.

Y.M. (AFTER A REFLECTIVE PAUSE) Temperament. Well, I see one must
allow for temperament. It is a large factor, sure enough. My mother is
thoughtful, and not hot-tempered. When I was dressed I went to her room;
she was not there; I called, she answered from the bathroom. I heard the
water running. I inquired. She answered, without temper, that Jane had
forgotten her bath, and she was preparing it herself. I offered to
ring, but she said, "No, don't do that; it would only distress her to
be confronted with her lapse, and would be a rebuke; she doesn't deserve
that--she is not to blame for the tricks her memory serves her." I
say--has my mother an Interior Master?--and where was he?

O.M. He was there. There, and looking out for his own peace and pleasure
and contentment. The girl's distress would have pained YOUR MOTHER.
Otherwise the girl would have been rung up, distress and all. I know
women who would have gotten a No. 1 PLEASURE out of ringing Jane up--and
so they would infallibly have pushed the button and obeyed the law
of their make and training, which are the servants of their Interior
Masters. It is quite likely that a part of your mother's forbearance
came from training. The GOOD kind of training--whose best and highest
function is to see to it that every time it confers a satisfaction upon
its pupil a benefit shall fall at second hand upon others.

Y.M. If you were going to condense into an ad