its own harvest of mingling joy and bitterness, but which on the whole
made for sound manhood and womanhood.

With the girl Annette one effect of the Public School and its
influences, educational and social, was to reveal to her the depth of
the educational and social pit from which she had been taken. Her High
School training might have fitted her for the teaching profession
and completed her social emancipation but for her vain and thriftless
mother, who, socially ambitious for herself but more for her handsome,
clever children, found herself increasingly embarrassed for funds. She
lacked the means with which to suitably adorn herself and her children
for the station in life to which she aspired and for which good clothes
were the prime equipment and to "eddicate" Tony as he deserved. Hence
when Annette had completed her second year at the High School her mother
withdrew her from the school and its associations and found her a place
in the new Fancy Box Factory, where girls could obtain "an illigant and
refoined job with good pay as well."

This change in Annette's outlook brought wrathful disappointment to the
head master, Alex Day, who had taken a very special pride in Annette's
brilliant school career and who had outlined for her a University
course. To Annette herself the ending of her school days was a bitter
grief, the bitterness of which would have been greatly intensified had
she been able to measure the magnitude of the change to be wrought in
her life by her mother's foolish vanity and unwise preference of her
son's to her daughter's future.

The determining factor in Annette's submission to her mother's will was
consideration for her brother and his career. For while for her father
she cherished an affectionate pride and for her mother an amused and