"Do not come just yet, dear, I want to talk to auntie."
"You're always talking to auntie, I think," grumbled Alice.
"Always?" asked Agnes, feeling as if that were the last worry, and she could not bear more.
"Well, not always; but, Agnes, I hope you will not let her persuade you to begin school with Minnie and me to-morrow because——"
"Well?" asked Agnes.
"I don't know exactly why, but it's horrid if you do, because I haven't had half enough time; and I never thought we should begin when the boys did."
"I never thought anything else," answered Agnes; and then she had gone in next door with a sense of utter failure.
And so Aunt Phyllis was right when she advised her to raise her eyes heavenward.
