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Miss Taylor found the Lake George colony char It was not ultra-fashionable, but it had wealth and leisure and so Especially was this true of a circumscribed, rather exclusive, set which centred around the Vanderpools of New York and Boston They, or rather Mr Vanderpool's connections, were of Old Dutch New York stock; his father it ho had built the Lake George cottage

Mrs Vanderpool was a Wells of Boston, and endured Lake George now and then during the suarded it all as rather a joke This summer pro a retreat to the Massachusetts north shore when she chanced to meet Mary Taylor, at aShe discovered that this young wos, that she could talk books, and that she was rather pretty To be sure she knew no people, but Mrs Vanderpool knew enough to even things

"By the bye, I omery--the Cresswells; do you know the in wicker chairs on the Vanderpool porch Then she answered the query herself: "No, of course you could not It is too bad that your work deprives you of the society of people of your class Now ro schools where the white teachers could know the Cresswells"

"Why, yes--" faltered Miss Taylor; "but--wouldn't that be difficult?"

"Why should it be?"

"I roes?"

"Oh, 'educating'! The word conceals so much Now, I take it the Cresswells would object to instructing theowns, and so, in fact, would I; but teach them how to handle a hoe and to sew and cook I have reason to know that people like the Cresswells would be delighted"

"And with the teachers of it?"

"Why not?--provided, of course, they were--well, gentlefolk and associated accordingly"

"But one must associate with one's pupils"

"Oh, certainly, certainly; just as one must associate with one's maids and chauffeurs and dressmakers--cordially and kindly, but with a difference"

"But--but, dear Mrs Vanderpool, you wouldn't want your children trained that ould you?"

"Certainly not, my dear But these are not roes; we can't quite forget that, can we?"

"No, I suppose not," Miss Taylor admitted, a little helplessly "But--it see culture to the masses"

"Frankly, then, the modern idea is not my idea; it is too socialistic And as for culture applied to the masses, you utter a paradox The masses and work is the truth one must face"