So I told them the stern facts and lost a rare treat.
This is the end of Miss Willard's good-bye letter to me when returning to England with Lady Henry: Hoping to see you on my return, and hereby soliciting an exchange of photographs between you and Lady Henry and me, I am ever and as ever Yours, FRANCES WILLARD.
While at Mrs.Smith's home in Germantown, both she and Miss Willard urged me to sign a Temperance Pledge that lay on the table in the library.

I would have accepted almost anything either of those good friends presented for my attention.

So after thinking seriously I signed.

But after going to my room I felt sure that I could never keep that pledge.

So I ran downstairs and told them to erase my name, which was done without one word of astonishment or reproof from either.
I wish I knew how to describe Hannah Whitehall Smith as she was in her everyday life.