Her best pupils became her lasting friends.

She became one of the best Greek scholars in the country, and continued, in her latest years, the habit of reading Homer, the tragedians, and Plato.

But her studies took a wide range in mathematics, in natural philosophy, in psychology, in theology, as well as in ancient and modern literature.

She had always a keen ear open to whatever new facts astronomy, chemistry, of the theories of light and heat had to furnish.

Any knowledge, all knowledge was welcome.