know a thing about gardens. They don’t know a shrub from a tree when they see it. It’s a new field for women — in the country, at least — and I’m dying to try it. That youngest Fraser girl makes heaps, and I never thought much of her intelligence. Of course, after I finish and am ready to take commissions, I’ll have to be content with small jobs, at first. But later I may get a chance at grounds around public libraries and hospitals and railway stations. And if I can get one really big job at one of those new-rich north shore places I’ll be made.”

The course required two years and was rather expensive. But Marcia said it would pay, in the end. Besides, now that the war had knocked Ed’s business into a cocked hat for the next five years or more, the extra money would