CHAPTER III PATIENTS AND FRIENDS 476 S. J.-B. removes to Bruntsfield Lodge—Letters to old friends—Interest in education of girls—Views on problems and mysteries of life—Paying and non-paying guests—Beginnings of Edinburgh Hospital for Women and Children—Her love of poetry—Her books. CHAPTER IV PUBLIC LIFE 490 Interest in all public questions relating to women—Too masterful and uncompromising in working with others—Publishes _The Care of Infants_—Her coöperation much in demand in parliamentary business—Assists Edinburgh lecturers in their efforts to obtain charter— Efforts fail, but examinations of Conjoint Colleges thrown open to women—Re-publication of _Medical Women_—_The Englishwoman’s Year Book_— Health Lecture to Women—Founding of Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women—Its difficulties— Opposition. CHAPTER V RE-OPENING OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY TO WOMEN 502 S. J.-B. writes article for _Nineteenth Century_— Views on marriage, etc.—Her Hindu students— Appointed a lecturer on Midwifery in the Extra- Mural School—Death of Dr. Lucy Sewall—S. J.-B.’s renewed efforts to gain admission for women to St. Andrews—Final appeal to her own Alma Mater “to decide a question which has been under consideration for twenty-five years”—Success— Congratulations from members of “National Association”—S. J.-B.’s characteristics as doctor and as citizen. CHAPTER VI DRIVING TOURS. ANIMAL FRIENDS 513 CHAPTER VII THE SABBATICAL YEAR 523 Search for a suitable house—Send-off from friends in Edinburgh—Windydene—Life in retirement—Fruit- growing—Dairy—Friends—Books—Winters abroad— Interest in public affairs—Distrust of Germany— Suffrage—Death of Professor Masson—S. J.-B.’s religious attitude—Health—Last illness. APPENDICES A. Pedigree of the Jex-Blake family. Origin of 543 compound surname B. “Words for the Way.”—No. 2. Rest 544 C. Conclusions from “A Visit to American Schools and 548 Colleges” D. The Edinburgh Extra-Mural School 551 E. Letter to the _Times_ in reply to Mrs. Garrett 552 Anderson F. Letter to the _Times_ in reply to the Principal of 555 Edinburgh University