“She kept her eyes on her book and tried to fix her mind. It had lately occurred to her that her mind was a good deal of a vagabond, and she had spent much ingenuity in training it to a military step and teaching it to advance, to halt, to retreat, to perform even more complicated maneuvers, at the word of command. Just now she had given it marching orders and it had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of "German Thought” WomenMilitaryDisciplineMindfulnessFeministMind PowerIndependent ThoughtGerman Thought Book:The Portrait of a Lady Source: The Portrait of a Lady