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Madeline took notes in a leisurely fashion and wondered if it was her duty to go up at the end of the hour and claim Georgia Ames’s contribution. She had already accomplished her object, by striking a spark of enthusiasm out of the blasé Dr. Eaton; but she decided that it would be just as well to wait a little before giving her explanation. Georgia Ames might prove a valuable ally in some other time of need. Madeline lost the thread of the lecture as she considered the vast possibilities of a second self.

She brought the subject up at luncheon, without mentioning Georgia.

“She could do the things you never have time to,” she explained, “and the things you hate, or can’t do well.”

“I shouldn’t care to be your second self,” said Mary Brooks. “You’d make a perfect drudge of her,—keep her mending stockings and doing errands all her days. You might as well hire a maid.”

“That’s a good point,” admitted Madeline; “but I should take care not to abuse her. She would be a very fascinating person, I assure you. You see, not really being anybody she could do just as she pleased, without caring what people thought of her.”