Because Anne has had a career as a painter we should have one - because Jane found a husband on ship board, we look there. A sound working imagination inspires a healthy contempt for copy-book lives. If we only had as young girls as much interest and good sense about life as about looks we would save ourselves many a mistake. They are charmingly frank about their good and bad points. It is part of their youthful good sense that even beauty cannot permanently withstand the inroads of vanity and selfishness.
Girls soon learn how to make the most of a good point, to conceal or redeem a bad one.
Would that we as generally applied as much imagination to the points of our lives. We each possess a little cluster of possibilities - of handicaps. It is in turning these over, thoughtfully studying how the possibilities may be developed and combined - the handicaps cut out that an individual original life is made, and original work is done. But she will never be a blonde. Nor never will she be an editor if she merely copies what she sees another doing - or what she thinks she is doing.