No, indeed!—at least, not yet.
MEDON.
Have you examined and noted down the routine of the domestic education of their children? (we know something of the public and national systems.) Can you give some accurate notion of the ideas which generally prevail on this subject?
ALDA.
O no! you have mentioned things which would require a life to study. Merely to have thought upon them, to have glanced at them, gives me no right to discuss them, unless I could bring my observations to some tangible form, and derive from them some useful result.
MEDON.
Yet in this last journey you had an object—a purpose?
ALDA.
I had—a purpose which has long been revolving in my mind—an object never lost sight of;—but give me time!—time!