They were good and interesting women, and they talked sympathetically and well to the girls.

Miss Berry was crushed.

"What will the girls think of my teachings ?" she asked herself.

"They will believe I do not know." But that night one of her assistants said to her: "I have just overheard the girls discussing our visitors.

They liked them so much, but they are saying that it is such a pity that they could not have had you to _teach them how to dress_." As a method of education, instruction in the principles of dress is admirable for a girl.