In fact, I want to see experience substituted for precept.' Between this lady and Miss Barfoot there were considerable divergences of opinion, yet they agreed on a sufficient number of points to like each other very well.

Occasionally one of Mrs.Cosgrove's _protegees_ passed into Miss Barfoot's hands, abandoning the thought of matrimony for study in Great Portland Street.

Rhoda Nunn, also, had a liking for Mrs.Cosgrove, though she made no secret of her opinion that Mrs.
Cosgrove's influence was on the whole decidedly harmful.
'That house,' she once said to Miss Barfoot, 'is nothing more than a matrimonial agency.' 'But so is every house where many people are entertained.' 'Not in the same way.

Mrs.Cosgrove was speaking to me of some girl who has just accepted an offer of marriage.

"I don't think they'll suit each other," she said, "but there's no harm in trying."' Miss Barfoot could not restrain a laugh.
'Who knows?
Perhaps she is right in that view of things.