The headmistress proved not only to be a fine exemplar of the beauty she taught, but to be a kind and caring instructress. She game me little peace, but then relaxation and repose were not what I was in school for. I was there to learn the art of beauty and of beauty culture. I was there to claim my right to be beautiful, but I had to learn this art and Madame meant to see that I did. most students had an assigned partner and partners worked on one another in the classroom. My partner was Mandy Forsythe and we did not meet in the classroom. We met in Madame Ogilvie's office where she instructed us personally. Mandy had been assigned as my partner because she had been placed on probation for deportment violations. Mandy was a large, busy farm girl from North Dakota, whose father had been made ambassador the the French government and Mandy was being 'finished' so that she would know how to behave in Paris. They were having some difficulty cleaning up her rude language and rough behavior.