"Haven't you a father or mother?"
"No."
"Nor brothers or sisters?"
"No."
"How horrid for you!" Nat had not been at all attracted by the new girl, but now her ready sympathies were enlisted. No wonder she was so queer and stiff!
"Have you been to many schools?" she continued, with another attempt to be friendly.
"No, I was only at one for a term last year."
"You've had a governess then, I suppose?"
"No."
"Oh!" Nat wondered how a girl was educated, if she neither went to school nor had a governess. "I suppose your people taught you at home?"