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If, indeed, you had to earn your living it would be a different matter. But you will be rich, dear, some day, and Well, I am glad you've spoken to me. Don't think anything more about it. Come in to lunch now." "I'll try not to think of it, father; and you're not really angry?" "Angry!" said Mr. Gardew. "I'll never be angry with you, Merry, when you tell me all the thoughts of your heart."
My niece Aneta is at the school, and her mother is charmed with it." "But that is very strange," said Mrs. Gardew after a pause. "You must talk to-night to our rector when he comes. Oh yes, of course you'll stay to supper." "I cannot, I regret to say." "Well, then, if you won't, there's no use in pressing you. But I have something curious to say.
Gardew in her gentle voice, "the child is evidently very different from her mother, and I must respect the mother for doing her best to get her girl well educated." "Your girls are not going to school, are they, Sylvia?" asked Lady Lysle. "Mine? Of course not. Their father wouldn't hear of it." "On the whole, I think he is right," said Lady Lysle, "though there are advantages in schools.
"Well, the fact is, when my cousin, Lucia Lysle, was here yesterday she spoke very strongly to me on the subject of the girls' education, and urged me to do what I knew you would never for a moment consent to." "And what is that?" asked Mr. Gardew. "I seem to be an awful bugbear in this business." "No, dear, no. I quite understand your scruples, and and respect them.
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