"Because she is an editor's daughter and knows that a newspaper could not run successfully without women.

James Merton Eliot, the well-known newspaper editor, is her father." Exclamations of surprise greeted this announcement.

To Miriam, Anne and Mabel this was news indeed, but the astonishment of Patience arose from a far different cause.
"How did you know it ?" Patience asked Elfreda in open amazement.
"Oh, I heard you explaining to Grace at luncheon one day just how the Sunday section of a newspaper was put together.

I could see you knew what you were talking about, and made up my mind then that you didn't get your information from Miss West.

Then you dropped a letter one day when we were crossing the campus addressed to James Merton Eliot, The Elms, South Framingham, Massachusetts.