PLANNING FOR THE RECEPTION The committee on the constitution and by-laws for the new club met the very next evening and drew up a terse little document setting forth their object in banding themselves together.

Grace had already made note of the few rules she wished the girls to observe, but, so far as possible, she wished the committee to draw up their own regulations, subject to her approval.

To create a spirit of independence and self-confidence in the girls of Harlowe House had been Grace's basic motive.

She realized that many of them were hampered with an undue sense of gratitude which made them too humble for their own interest.

She purposed to make them self-reliant and free.