“No; I don’t go to school.”
“Tutor at home, I suppose?”
“No.”
“Who teaches you, then?”
“Aunt did, and now my father does.”
“And what are you going to be?”
“I don’t know.”
“You ought to be a cadet, and join the Engineers.”
I made no reply to this; for I had never thought of any career in the future, and had never had any ideas beyond our quiet forest home, so I was not prepared with any remark.
“How do you amuse yourself here?” said the stranger. “Rather a dull place, I fancy.”