Kate, wearing her prettiest blue dress, forgot even the dull ache in her heart, as she threw herself into the business of educating those young people.

She worked as she never had before.

She seemed to have developed fresh patience, new perception, keener penetration; she made the dullest of them see her points, and interested the most inattentive.

She went home to dinner feeling better.

She decided to keep on teaching a few years until George was well started in his practice; if he ever got started.