12/15 She repeatedly alarmed her mother by broaching projects of becoming a hospital nurse, a public singer, or an actress. These projects led to some desultory studies. In order to qualify herself as a nurse she read a handbook of physiology, which Mrs.Wylie thought so improper a subject for a young lady that she went in tears to beg Mrs.Jansenius to remonstrate with her unruly girl. Mrs.Jansenius, better advised, was of opinion that the more a woman knew the more wisely she was likely to act, and that Agatha would soon drop the physiology of her own accord. This proved true. |