I tried to make everybody contented and pleased with me. That was when I came out. Indeed, I may say for myself that I had a sympathetic nature.
I could not bear to see anyone uncomfortable or doubtful about themselves or anything, without trying to help them. Surely that was not bad?"
"No," said Mrs. Brough, slowly.
"I really wished to help every one," she continued. "And the best way that I found to do it was to say pleasant things. It was easy-too fatally easy.
When I discovered how popular this made me I kept on. I continued for myself what I had really begun for others. Insensibly I acquired skill.
I was not stupid. I had rather a gift for character-and could say exactly the thing to each one to flatter them the most. I found that I took pleasure in the exercise of such cleverness.
There was a feeling of power in it-playing with the foibles and weaknesses of men and women. I did not see that I was often trafficking in unworthiness and baseness."
"I've no doubt you did harm," concluded Mrs.
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