They have only to apply sines and co-sines, tangents and logarithms to a stock exchange quotation for me to grovel before their superior wisdom and consult them at every turn in life.
[Footnote 1: This, of course, was twenty, years ago .-- H.H.J.] Honoria had resolved to turn her great acquirements in Algebra and the Higher Mathematics to practical purposes.

Being the ignoramus that I am--in this direction--I cannot say how it was to be done; but both she and Vivie had grasped the possibilities which lay before exceptionally well-educated women on the Stock Exchange, in the Provision markets, in the Law, in Insurance calculations, and generally in steering other and weaker women through the difficulties and pitfalls of our age; when in nine cases out of thirteen (Honoria worked out the ratio) women of large or moderate means have only dishonest male proficients to guide them.
Moreover Honoria's purpose was two-fold.

She wished to help women in their business affairs, but she also wanted to find careers for women.

She, like Vivien Warren, was a nascent suffragist--perhaps a born suffragist, a reasoned one; because the ferment had been in her mother, and her grandmother was a friend of Lydia Becker and a cousin of Mrs.Belloc.

John's death had been a horrible numbing shock to Honoria, and she felt hardly in her right mind for three months afterwards.