Miss Swainson’s method did not go deep enough. Mere protest will
occasionally effect a change, but not often. If she could have gotten
behind Charlie Owen’s attitude, and found its roots, which were probably
in the attitude of some member of his family or a powerful older friend,
she might have truly converted Charlie to her way of thinking. His
statement that “everybody always laughs at those Lescinszkies,” might
have given her a clue, but she did not realize that she was only working
on the surface.