She was worthy nothing but scorn, or I might have spoken of some of the things your mother and I endured in those days of frontier posts.

And now we have a California--serene--fruitful--and can speak of the uselessness of the army! Does the absurdity of it never strike them ?" Katie pondered that; wondered if Mrs.Prescott's attitude and spirit were not passing with the frontier.

Few of the army girls she knew thought of themselves as homeless, or gave much consideration to that thing of making other homes possible, save, to be sure, the homes they were hoping--and plotting--to make for themselves.

And she could not see that the "young woman" was answered.

The young woman had not been talking about traditions.