Life in the new and enchanting place had been in the moving present.

The mind had been receptive only, gathering data for later thought.

During her visit she had had no one to direct her thought, and so it had been all personal, with the freedom of individuality at large.

Of course her mother's friend, skilled in the mind-workings of average girls, and able to pick her way through intellectual and moral quagmires, had taken good care to point out to her certain intellectual movements and certain moral lessons; just as she had in their various walks and drives pointed out matters of interest--architectural beauties and spots of historic import.

And she had taken in, loyally accepted, and thoroughly assimilated all that she had been told.