In the meanwhile, her talent for administration had to confine itself within the bounds of the Parsonage and the parish,

where it was apt to become just a trifle dictatorial and overbearing.

It is so hard for a young, keen, ardent nature,

anxious to set the world right,

to remember that infinite patience must go hand in hand with our best endeavors and that the time of sowing is an utterly different hand with our best endeavors,

and that the time of sowing is an utterly different season from that of harvest.

Between Georgina and Beatrice, there was often friction.

The former resented being ordered about by a sister of only twenty and would prove rebellious on occasion.