A furnace and a high bench with all necessary equipment had been duly installed.

This was a branch much too technically difficult for the girls to attempt alone, so a skilled teacher had been procured, who came weekly from Elwyn Bay to give lessons.

Those girls who took the course became intensely enthusiastic over it.

To make even a simple chain was interesting, but when they advanced to setting polished pebbles or imitation stones as brooches or pendants, the work waxed fascinating.

Some of the students proved much more adept than others, and turned out really pretty things.
There was not apparatus for many pupils to work, so the class had been limited to seniors, among whom Doris Deane, Ruth White, and Stephanie Radford had begun to distinguish themselves.