Really, the two girls’ dispositions were much alike,

but Beatrice’s early position of responsibility had turned into the strength of character that was at present a mere manifestation of independence and often bravado in Georgina.

Winnie, a sweet-tempered, pretty girl of eighteen,

had just been made an under mistress at “Rodenhurst”,

Miss Roscoe’s school,

which she and Georgina and Lesbia attended daily.

Teaching was not at all Winnie’s vocation,

she hated it heartily,

but as her services canceled her sisters’ school fees,

she was obliged to accept the unwelcome drudgery for the sake of the help it gave to her father’s narrow income.

If it was Beatrice’s ambition to go out into the world and carve a career for herself,

it was certainly Winnie’s ideal to stop at home.