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“I know—I know what you mean,” she interrupted to explain. “But that is only their way. Don’t you know that ignorant people always ridicule what they can’t understand? But, I repeat it, the girls liked you. They told me so last night!”

“Really?” cried the girl, still in doubt as to the possibility of such a fact. “Please tell me about it, Miss Winthrop. What did they say?”

“Well,” began Miss Winthrop, “it all happened last night, when I returned from New York. I went immediately to my office and began to open my mail, when Mrs. Morgan interrupted me by bringing in her report of the work during my absence.”

“What did she say about the party?” asked Lily with interest.

“Merely that it went nicely and that every one had a good time,” replied the settlement worker in amusement.

“I thought she would say as much,” remarked Marjorie. “I wish I could have been so easily satisfied!”

“No, no, Miss Wilkinson—that very attitude is what makes you so valuable. Mrs. Morgan is a splendid matron, and a very agreeable person, but she will never make a social worker.”