‘I don’t think it will make much difference to you.’
‘Oh, but I do want to be thoroughly well educated. I meant to go through them all, like Gillian and Mysie, and I am sure father must wish it too. I know he meant it when he went out last year.’
‘Yes, he did,’ said Miss Mohun. ‘It was very unlucky that he did not get any of our later letters.’
‘I have tried to tell him that it is all different now, but he does not seem to care,’ said Dolores.
‘He has quite made up his mind,’ said her aunt.
‘Has he quite?’ said Dolores. ‘I thought perhaps if you talked to him about the examination and the confirmation too—’
‘But, Dolly, you are not going to a heathen country. Your confirmation will be as much attended to in New Zealand as here.’
‘Oh, but I should be confirmed with Mysie, and Aunt Lily would read with me, and help me!’
‘Yes, I see.’
‘Do please tell him. Aunt Jane. He heeds what you say more than any one. Do tell him that the only hope of my being good is if I stay with Aunt Lily just these few years!’