They looked at her silently. It was impossible not to feel deeply impressed with the earnestness of her tone. Billie felt ashamed. With all her advantages and the opportunities money and travel had brought her, Phoebe, raised in a cabin on the mountain side, had learned something she had not.
Presently she went over and sat beside the mysterious girl.
“I wish you would teach me a few things, Phoebe. I feel that I am very ignorant.”
“But I have never been to school,” replied Phoebe in astonishment.
“There are some things one doesn’t learn at school,” answered Billie.
CHAPTER X.
ALBERDINA SCHOENBACHLER
“You no lig I shall dos clothes coog?” asked Alberdina, the Monday after her arrival.