“Oh, no—why should they?”
“I don’t know. I imagined it was best for a boy to go to school when he was seven, and stay there, generally speaking, till he was past twenty.”
Sunbeam laughed. “He’ll be very wise when he comes out of school,” she said. “We take a five years’ course, boys and girls alike.”
“Do you attend the same schools?”
“Oh, no. We don’t even learn the same lessons. But you’ll have to ask mother or father about school. They know more about it than I do, because they’ve been.”
“Is your education finished when you are twenty?” I continued.
“Oh, no! Mother says it’s only just begun.”
“Still,” said I, “don’t your boys get rather spoilt staying at home till that age? There is so little for them to do.”
“They help with the housework,” she rejoined.
“And do they like it?”