"To-day is full enough; but some days nothing happens at all."
"Now is your study time; now is the time for you to be a perfect little daughter and sister, a perfect friend, a perfect helper in every way that a child may help. And when womanhood comes you will be ready to enjoy it and to do its work. It would be very sad to look back upon a lost or blighted or unsatisfying childhood."
"Yes," assented Marjorie, gravely.
"Perhaps you and Linnet have been reading story-books that were not written for children."
"We read all the books in the school library."
"Does your mother look over them?"
"No, not always."
"They may harm you only in this way that I see. You are thinking of things before the time. It would be a pity to spoil May by bringing September into it."
"All the girls like the grown-up stories best" excused Marjorie.
"Perhaps they have not read books written purely for children. Think of the histories and travels and biographies and poems piled up for you to read!"