"I am sure I could never have planned everything so beautifully for Harlowe House if you hadn't helped me." "But I had such a wonderful source of inspiration," reminded Miss Wilder, turning the tide of approbation in Grace's direction.
"I wish I could agree with you," laughed Grace, her color rising.

Then her face grew earnest.

"It would make me very happy if I thought that, as the head of Harlowe House, I could inspire my girls to love Overton as deeply and truly as I do.

I don't intend to preach to them or to moralize, but I do wish them to gain real college spirit.

If they strive to cultivate that, it will mean more to them than all the talks and lectures one could give them.