"Progress beyond Mrs.George B.Slade's and Mrs.Sturtevant's and Miss Bessy Dicky's, and that is precisely what we need." Annie Eustace gazed wistfully upon her friend.

"Yes," she agreed, "you are quite right, Margaret.

Mrs.Slade and Mrs.Sturtevant and poor Bessy Dicky and all the other members are very good, and we think highly of them, but I too feel that we all travel in a rut sometimes.

Perhaps we all walk too much the same way." Then suddenly Annie burst into a peal of laughter.

She had a sense of humour which was startling.