"Yes, I'm glad," he answered.
"Oh! You're glad, are you?"
"Well, I'm glad in a way. A boy does have to go to school, doesn't he, uncle? And the sooner it's over the better. I tell you what I should like--I should like to go to school night and day and have no holidays till it was all done. I sh'd think you could save at least three years with that."
"A bit hard on the masters, wouldn't it be?"
"I never thought of that. Of course it would never be over for them. I expect they'd gradually die."
"Then you don't like school?"
George shook his head.
"Did you like school, uncle?"
Edwin shook his head. They both laughed.
"Uncle, can I leave school when I'm sixteen?"