But there were many evenings when her father found it difficult to hold to the resolve he had made, to go slowly with his daughter until he could be more sure of his ground.

She was growing so intense again.

From the school authorities she had secured a still wider range and freedom for her new experiment, and she was working day and night to put her ideas into effect.
"It's only too easy," she remarked, "to launch an idea in this town.

The town will put it in headlines at once, and with it a picture of yourself in your best bib and tucker, looking as though you loved the whole world.

And you can make a wonderful splurge, until they go on to the next new thing.
The real trouble comes in working it out." And this she had set out to do.