After that she began on the library shelves, listing such medical works as were of a technical nature.

Books of fiction, history, art, and biography, and those books written by her father she did not include.

She found that she had a long task which would occupy several evenings.

Her mind was methodical and she had been with her father through sufficient business transactions to understand that in order to drive a good bargain she must know how many volumes she had to offer and the importance of their authors as medical authorities; she should also know the exact condition of each set of books.

Since she had made up her mind to let them go, and she knew the value of many of the big, leather-bound volumes, she determined that she would not sell them until she could secure the highest possible price for them.
Two months previously she would have consulted John Gilman and asked him to arrange the transaction for her.