With even two or three hundred ahead--and an outfit--it would be easier to make good in a store or any other way.

Well--I have other fish to fry!" So she pursued her way; and, with Mrs.Porne's permission--held a sort of girl's club in her spotless kitchen one evening a week during the last three months of her engagement.

It was a "Study and Amusement Club." She gave them short and interesting lessons in arithmetic, in simple dressmaking, in easy and thorough methods of housework.

She gave them lists of books, referred them to articles in magazines, insidiously taught them to use the Public Library.
They played pleasant games in the second hour, and grew well acquainted.
To the eye or ear of any casual visitor it was the simplest and most natural affair, calculated to "elevate labor" and to make home happy.
Diantha studied and observed.

They brought her their poor confidences, painfully similar.