For all her exploiting of the Zenith Club of Fairbridge, she herself, unless she were the main figure at the helm, could realise nothing in it so exceedingly inspiring, but it was otherwise with Annie.

It was quite conceivable that had it not been for the Zenith Club, she never would have grown to her full mental height.

Annie Eustace had a mind of the sequential order.

By subtle processes, unanalysable even by herself, even the record of Miss Bessy Dicky started this mind upon momentous trains of thought.

Unquestionably the Zenith Club acted as a fulminate for little Annie Eustace.