Allie did sums in arithmetic, she studied grammar and geography and penmanship--in short, she took an intensified common-school course.

Here was where her tutoress had trouble, for when the girl's brain became weary or confused she relieved her baffled rage in her most natural way, the while Mrs.Ring stopped her ears and moaned.

It was a regimen that no ordinary woman could have endured; it would have taxed the strength of an athlete.
Late in the afternoon Allie went riding, and here was one accomplishment in which she required no coaching.

Frequently she vented her spite upon her horse, and more than once she brought it home with its mouth bleeding and its flanks white with lather.

She rode with a magnificent recklessness that finally caused comment among the other guests.
Allie was sitting alone in her room one evening, fagged out from a hard day.