the Classics, for Use of Beginners--and held it between both hands.
Its price was ninepence, but Grindley junior appeared to regard it
as a volume of great value.

"It will be hard work at first," Miss Appleyard warned him; "but
you must persevere. I have taken an interest in you; you must try
not to disappoint me."

And Miss Appleyard, feeling all the sensations of a Hypatia,
departed, taking light with her and forgetting to pay for the
telegram. Miss Appleyard belonged to the class that young ladies
who pride themselves on being tiresomely ignorant and foolish sneer
at as "blue-stockings"; that is to say, possessing brains, she had
felt the necessity of using them. Solomon Appleyard, widower, a
sensible old gentleman, prospering in the printing business, and
seeing no necessity for a woman regarding herself as nothing but a
doll, a somewhat uninteresting plaything the newness once worn off,
thankfully encouraged her. Miss Appleyard had returned from Girton
wise in many things, but not in knowledge of the world, which
knowledge, too early acquired, does not always make for good in
young man or woman. A serious little virgin, Miss Appleyard's
ambition was to help the human race. What more useful work could
have come to her hand than the raising of this poor but intelligent
young grocer's assistant unto the knowledge and the love of higher
things. That Grindley junior happened to be an exceedingly good-
looking and charming young grocer's assistant had nothing to do
with the matter, so Miss Appleyard would have informed you. In her
own reasoning she was convinced that her interest in him would have
been the same had he been the least attractive of his sex. That
there could be danger in such relationship never occurred to her.