Katy breathed hard.
"Well, I came on him quick, too!"
Alvin began to gasp nervously. Self-pity overwhelmed him.
"I have nothing in this world," mourned he. "This summer I will have to work at the furnace. I will have a hard life."
"But I thought you were going to have an education!" cried Katy.
"I cannot," mourned Alvin. "It is no use to try. I am alone in the world."
Katy turned upon him a glowing face.
"That is nonsense, Alvin! Everybody can have an education. There are schools where you can study and work, too. It is so at the normal school where they learn you to teach. I thought you were going to be a teacher, Alvin!"
"I was," said Alvin. "I would like to be a teacher."
"I will find out about those schools," promised Katy, forever eager to help, to plan. "I am going away; nothing would keep me in Millerstown. You must surely go, Alvin!"