My Aunt Veronica was a remarkable lady. She was the grand-daughter of the builder of the D'Arielle Estate. Aunt Veronica was a member of the D'Arielle Ladies Society for the Recovery of Wayward Girls. A bit more than sixty years after it's construction. Aunt Veronica donated the Estate to the Society as a girls' home and related items. Just before retiring from the management of the estate, she added a house that she named after me.

Lady Veronica publised the Journal of Recovery for several years. Here unique perspective also added to this the concept of prevention of waywardness as an important step and acivity of the group, which she renamed the D'Arielle Ladies Society. Lady Veronica held that the source of waywardness was self-absorbedness to the exclusion of the outside world. She further proposed that there were ways in which this manifested itself in little girls and what to do about this.

This volume represents the most cogent and important articles from that journl. I am grateful to Sandra Lynelle and Bridget Alicia for accepting the girls' home and keeping the D'Arielle precepts at the center of things and for keeping these articles where they can be read.

I also feel a special kind of love for Lady Veronica, whose favorite niece I was and she was my favorite Aunt. Ever since I was 4 she paid special attention to me and I stayed close with her always thereafter. I guess it paid off in a way as the addition to the D'Arieelle Estate that she made, she named after me and when I had the Apartment Complex built, it seemed that the only right thing to do was name it for her

The persons to whom I was able to turn it over very recently both understand and love the D'Arielle tradition and would have just adored my beloved Aunt Veronica.

Just becuase I am leaving the Headmiistresship of the D'Arielle Home and School and the headship of the D'Arielle society to these fine ladies, does not mean I am leaving the D'Arielle way of life, I am going into dress design and I will create the kind of clotes and things that promote the D'Arielle precepts and practices as I have been asked to work at and serve as the head of the "La Boutique des Filles Fleurettes", a small maker of little girls' clothes in Europe. I hope to affiliate my company with the Rubber Nursing School there that I have been told about and Bridget Alicia says that she will do all that she can to help. This will ensure steady business and distinction for the company adn give the Rubber Nursing School a "look" that is coherent, recognizable and will spead throughout the world.

Aunt Veronica would be proud of that