Keep yourselves free--don't marry for money--don't let yourselves get under the thumb of any husband, rich or poor, or of social position or money or clothes or any such silly trumpery.

Get the real things! Oh, I'm preaching, I know, as I did in spite of myself at home.

But girls--dear friends and comrades--be strong--and don't give up the ship!" Ethel read it many times.

She could hear the voice of the little "prof," now earnest, scornful, pleading, now obstinate and angry, again light-hearted, mocking.

She recalled how their leader had warned them against the bribery of men.