“Quite right; we shall come to Odalite presently; but, in the meantime, we want your own unbiased feeling about it.”
“Indeed, indeed, my feeling is to do just what Odalite wants me to do! Please, please, let me hear what Odalite says before I decide.”
“Very well, then, so you shall. Now, Wynnette?”
“Papa, I think we had best go at once. It is very warm here in the latter part of May, and all through June, and it will be so delightful on the ocean——”
“But your graduation, Wynnette?”
“Oh, papa! we shall not lose anything by losing those exercises. We are learning nothing new now. We are going over and over the old ground to make ourselves verbally perfect for the examination. So, indeed, by leaving school at once we shall lose nothing but the parade of the commencement.”
“We score two votes for the immediate voyage. Odalite, my dear, you have the floor.”
“Papa, if I could go to Europe immediately without detriment to the education of these girls, I should be very glad to go. But I think everything should yield to the interests of their education,” said Odalite.
“You have heard what Wynnette says, my dear—that they are adding nothing to their stock of knowledge in the last two months at school. Only perfecting themselves, in parrot-like verbiage, to answer questions at the coming examination. They will lose nothing but the pageantry of the exhibition.”
“Then, papa, I think I would like to go very soon.”