“It might be good for me to have to earn my own living, then I wouldn’t be afraid of it. It would be one less fear on my list. Some fears slough off. Some have to be grappled with,” she quoted from Doctor Jaquith and paused again. Her mother made no reply. “Fear is the deadliest enemy there is to success and happiness,” Charlotte went on reflectively. “Doctor Jaquith says it tends to put an end to both mental and physical activity. That phrase, ‘frozen with fear,’ has a sound scientific foundation, he says.”