The reappearance of little Glo’ interrupted the conversation, and the subject was dropped for the time being.
There is an Indian song which teaches a good lesson in perseverance:
“If a man talk a very long time,
If a man talk a very long time,
If a man talk a very long time,
He will bore a hole through a rock.”
And if a woman so talk, the effect is surer as well as swifter.
At the very first opportunity Miss Agrippina de Crespigney resumed the subject of sending her niece to school, and she talked a “very long time.”
Again and again she returned to the theme, and longer and longer she talked. She would listen to no proposal of home teaching. She would come to no compromise whatever. She would send the little “countess” to a first-class French and English Ladies’ Academy.
But it was not until late in the summer that Colonel de Crespigney, worn out with importunity and convinced, though against his will, by argument, reluctantly consented to the plan.