To superintend this department was Miss Nunn's chief duty, together with business correspondence under the principal's direction.

In the second room Miss Barfoot instructed her pupils, never more than three being with her at a time.

A bookcase full of works on the Woman Question and allied topics served as a circulating library; volumes were lent without charge to the members of this little society.

Once a month Miss Barfoot or Miss Nunn, by turns, gave a brief address on some set subject; the hour was four o'clock, and about a dozen hearers generally assembled.

Both worked very hard.
Miss Barfoot did not look upon her enterprise as a source of pecuniary profit, but she had made the establishment more than self-supporting.
Her pupils increased in number, and the working department promised occupation for a larger staff than was at present engaged.