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124 discover that she will grow interested, that you will have no more ardent partisan in your troubles and your happiness than she is, and no one who will give you better advice. If you are unfortunate enough not to be able to gain this consideration from your mother, then, my dear girl, keep your private affairs to yourself. Discuss everything else you want, from gowns to books, from pictures to sweetmeats, but do not tell to the rapturous girl-friend the story of your innermost life, or wear your heart upon your sleeve for every daw to peck at.

They will come surely, and you will be hurt again and again. While you believed-in Louise, or Florence, or Geraldine, you may have whispered how difficult it was for the home-people to save the money to have you take the music-lessons you so much desired. And then when Geraldine, or Louise, or Florence has turned the page that bears your name, you will be horrified to hear that this has been told all over the school. Very young girls seldom remember that there are obligations even after a friendship has ceased to exist, and that the greatest one of these is to force one's self to forget that which was told in confidence when life meant nothing unless you two were together.