and enjoyment: not until Life had developed her capacity for sorrow
and pain would her education be complete. School had taught her to
speak, to dress, and to act correctly: Life must teach her to feel.
School had trained her mind to appreciate: Life must teach her to
sympathize. School had made her a lady: Life must make the lady a
woman.

The woman had known her life schoolmates only in pleasure--in those
hours when they came to her seeking to please or desiring to be
pleased. In her Occupation she was coming to know them in their hours
of toil, when there was no thought of gaining or giving pleasure, but
only of the demands of their existence; when duty, pitiless, stern,
uncompromising, duty held them in its grip; when need, unrelenting,
ever present, dominating need, drove them under its lash. She had
known them only in their hours of leisure--when their minds were free
for the merry jest, the ready laugh, the quick sympathy: now she was
coming to know them in those other hours when their minds were intent
upon the battle they waged--when their thoughts were all of the
attack, the defense, the advance, the retreat, the victory or defeat.
She had known them only in their hours of rest--when their hands were
empty, their nerves and muscles relaxed, their hearts calm and their
brains cool; now she saw them when their hands held the weapons of
their warfare--the tools of their craft--when their nerves and muscles
were braced for the strain of the conflict or tense with the effort of
toil; when their hearts beat high with the zeal of their purpose and
their brains were fired with the excitement of their efforts. She had
known them only in the hours of their dreaming--when, as they looked
out upon life, they talked confidently of the future: she was learning
now to know them when they were working out their dreams; at times
with hopes high and courage strong; at other times discouraged,