But the poets, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Browning, are the great healers and regenerators of worn-out humanity.

When you are faint and weary with your day's work, the best thing you can do is to rise and refresh yourselves at the living wells of literature." Long before the closing sentence Miss Quincey's MS.

had become a sightless blur.

But she had managed to jot down in her neat arithmetical way: "Poets = healers and regenerators." The address was printed and a copy was given to each member of the staff.
Miss Quincey treasured up hers as a priceless scripture.
Miss Quincey was aware of her shortcomings and had struggled hard to mend them, toiling pantingly after those younger ones who had attained the standard of brilliance and efficiency.

She joined the Teachers' Debating Society.