I hove to afore I'd got scarcely under way." Keith put in a word.

"Finishing schools are not all bad, by any means," he said.

"There are various kinds and grades, of course, but a good private school for girls is a fine thing.

It teaches them to meet and judge people of all kinds, and that fine feathers don't always make fine birds.

Then, too, a girl at a good school of that sort is under strict discipline and her acquaintances, male acquaintances especially, are chosen with care.