You will get on better." So Sister Sempronia had sought to find what Aileen was most interested in, and bribe her therewith.

Being intensely conscious of her father's competence, and vain of her personal superiority, it was not so easy to do.

She had wanted to go home occasionally, though; she had wanted to be allowed to wear the sister's rosary of large beads with its pendent cross of ebony and its silver Christ, and this was held up as a great privilege.

For keeping quiet in class, walking softly, and speaking softly--as much as it was in her to do--for not stealing into other girl's rooms after lights were out, and for abandoning crushes on this and that sympathetic sister, these awards and others, such as walking out in the grounds on Saturday afternoons, being allowed to have all the flowers she wanted, some extra dresses, jewels, etc., were offered.

She liked music and the idea of painting, though she had no talent in that direction; and books, novels, interested her, but she could not get them.