pted. However, I know that he is
very well-to-do, so he must have made money in them and certainly I need
to get rich quick. I'm going to make the investment to-morrow."

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March 11th.

"Stung! I hate slang, but sometimes nothing else is quite so expressive.
I thought that I was getting to be very wise, but, oh, what a little
ignoramus I have been. And to think that I thought I was following
Philip's advice, and did not realize what he really meant until I read
a story about a man who was called 'Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford.' Now I'd
rather die than tell him that I have lost practically all of my worldly
goods!"

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Finally, late in May, is an entry, longer than any of its predecessors,
and the last for many a day. Rose made it seated in the soft moonlight
which came through the window of her hospital room, after her roommate
had fallen asleep.

"I am in a strange mood to-night, little diary, and not quite sure
whether I want to laugh or cry--indeed, I think that my heart has
done both to-day. I don't feel like going to sleep, but perhaps I
will be able to if I get the many thoughts out of my mind and down
on paper--now they are like so many little imps beating against my
brain with hammers.

"Surely I _should_ be happy at the thought that to-morrow is to
carry me to my goal at the top of the mountain path which Donald
described. In twelve hours I shall (D. V.) be a graduate nurse;
but, now that the journey is almost an accomplished fact, I
positively shiver when I think of the nerve of that child who was I
five years ago and who, blessed with ignorance, made up her mind to
become one, or 'bust'--that is the way I put it, then. Friends have
sometimes told me that they didn't see how I had the courage to
attempt it; but I tell them, truthfully, that it isn't courage when
one tackles a thing which she--or he--doesn't know is difficult to
do, and that few things are insurmountably difficult which she
tackles with confidence (which is as often the result of ignorance
as of faith in one's own power). So how can I take any credit for
succeeding?

"It _has_ been hard work, of course, and I know that I must have
failed if every one had not been so good to me, and, above all, if
God had not meant me to succeed. I have never for