But some had beautiful illustrations that set her to imagining.

Eagerly she groped her way deep into the history of the building of cathedrals and palaces in times gone by.

And the long majestic story of man's building on the earth thrilled her to the very soul.

Joe must make his place in it all! When on coming home at night he dumped a pile of work on the table, she would unobtrusively slip some book beside it.

She grew to know which ones tempted him most.