42 Ellen Key- were they always in harmony with Christian- ity? Thus she pondered in her mind. Her mother had planned to have Ellen teach her youngest sister and a playmate of the same age. Immediately upon her arrival home from Stockholm, the fifteen-year-old girl took up this work, fully conscious of the responsibility involved. I once heard Ellen Key tell of the joyful anticipation with which, while yet in Stockholm, she prepared herself for this task, thinking with what motherly tenderness she would care for the little sister who was six years her jimior. From the other pupil, Miss Ada Rydstrom, I have the highest testimony of Ellen's pedagogical power, al- ready developed at that time. "Ineradicable impressions were made on the child-mind by her teachings. We felt great respect for her, though at the same time we much enjoyed our lessons." The religious development of this former pupil later took a different direction from that of Ellen Key's, yet her opinion of Ellen's character, her purity and nobility of mind, remains unchanged. She also speaks of Ellen's love of nature, of her leisure mo- ments spent in woods and fields. No one was allowed to know the solitary places which were her chosen haunts.