Such was Miss Cursiter.

She was in splendid force to-day, grappling like an athlete with her enormous theme--"The Educational Advantages of General Culture." She delivered her address with an utterance rapid but distinct, keeping one eye on the reporter and the other on Miss Rhoda Vivian, M.A.
She might well look to Rhoda Vivian.

If she had needed a foil for her own commanding personality, she had found it there.

But the new Classical Mistress was something more than Miss Cursiter's complement.

Nature, usually so economical, not to say parsimonious, seemed to have made her for her own delight, in a fit of reckless extravagance.