a, "but, you see, except at
the night school it is out of the question, and I could not live upon
my grant even if every one of my class passed the examination. For any
other sort of teaching who do you imagine would have the courage to
employ any one bearing the name of Raeburn? Why, I can't give an order
in a shop without being looked all over by the person who takes the
address. No, governessing would be all very well if one might assume a
nom de guerre, but that would not do, you see."

"You couldn't find work of that sort among your own set, I suppose?"

"Not now," said Erica. "You see, naturally enough, I am very much out of
favor with them all."

"Falling between two stools," said Charles Osmond, half to himself. "But
don't lose heart, Erica: 'A stone that is fit for the wall will not be
left in the way;' there is work for you somewhere. By the way, I might
see old Crutchley he knows all the literary folk, and might get you an
introduction to some one, at any rate."

Just as Erica was leaving Brian came in from his rounds, and they met at
the door. Had he known her trouble and perplexity as to work, no power
on earth could have induced him to keep silence any longer; but he knew
nothing. She looked a little pale, but that was natural enough, and in
her eyes he could see a peace which he had never seen there before. Then
deep unselfish happiness filled his heart again, and Erica recognized
in his greeting a great deal more than an ordinary by-stander would have
seen. She went away feeling bettered by that handclasp.

"That is a downright good man!" she thought to herself. "Perhaps by the
time he's fifty-five, he'll be almost equal to his father."

CHAPTER XXII. An Editor

Socrates How singular is the thing called pleasure, and
how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be
the opposite; for they never come to a man together, and yet
he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take
the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of
one head or stem; and I can not help thinking that, if Aesop
had noticed them, he would have made a fable about God
trying to reconcile their strife, and when he could not, he
fastened their heads together; and this is the reason why
when one comes the other follows. Plato

That Erica should live any longer upon the money which her father
chiefly made by the dissemination of views with whic