"You are an ignorant, untrained, undisciplined girl. If you wish to accomplish the big things you plan, you will have to be educated. Here is your chance."
"I'm sorry, but I'll have to get along the best way I can."
"You are stubborn, pig-headed, foolish. Don't you want to be educated? Are you satisfied with your present illiterate condition?"
"I can't afford to be," I said.
"But if I am willing—"
I broke in:
"I took nearly six weeks to earn the money to pay you back. I told you I'd never take another cent from you, and I never will."
"Why not?"
"Because I want you to know that I care nothing, nothing at all—nothing, nothing, about your money, that you said every one else wanted. I only care for you. I do."
I had run along headlong with my speech, and now I was afraid of what I had said.