"Are you getting ready for school, Katy?"
"I am not going to school."
"Since when have you changed your mind?"
"This long time."
The squire turned and looked at Katy over his glasses.
"Why, it is only a little while since I gave you money for books!"
"You didn't give me money," corrected Katy, stammering. "It was a loan; I said it was a loan. Else I wouldn't have taken it."
"Humbug, Katy!"
If the squire had been Katy's guardian, she would have gone promptly to school. But Uncle Edwin held that office and he could not have brought himself to compel Katy to do anything. The squire argued and coaxed and cajoled and Katy looked at him with a white face and stubborn eyes.
"It wasn't right to take the two hundred dollars from Daniel in the beginning if you didn't intend to use it for schooling, Katy. What are you going to do?"