On one occasion, according to the little diary, the night was so dark they did not dare risk the ten-mile drive home, as much of the road lay beside the river, so they continued the festivities till daylight.

Once a party went to Saratoga Springs, and, to Miss Anthony's grief, her favorite young man invited another girl, and she had a long, dreary drive trying to be agreeable to one while her thought was with another.

To add to the unpleasantness her escort took this opportunity to ask her to give up teaching and preside over a home for him.
One winter was spent with relatives at Danby, Vt., and here, with the assistance of a cousin, Moses Vail, who was a teacher, she made a thorough study of algebra.

Later, when visiting her irrepressible brother-in-law, Aaron McLean, she made some especially nice cream biscuits for supper, and he said, "I'd rather see a woman make such biscuits as these than solve the knottiest problem in algebra." "There is no reason why she should not be able to do both," was the reply.
There are many references in the old letters to "Susan's tip-top dinners." She taught one summer in Cambridge, and then, for two years, in the home of Lansing G.Taylor, at Fort Edward.

Mrs.Taylor was the daughter of Judge Halsey Wing.