She ended by not having palpably been so.

In fact, the concern in her mind would have been difficult to impart to a young man, and after several experiments Mrs.Horn found it impossible to say that she wished Margaret could somehow be interested in lower things than those which occupied her.

She had watched with growing anxiety the girl's tendency to various kinds of self-devotion.

She had dark hours in which she even feared her entire withdrawal from the world in a life of good works.

Before now, girls had entered the Protestant sisterhoods, which appeal so potently to the young and generous imagination, and Margaret was of just the temperament to be influenced by them.