'You have your daughter to live for.'
'She will be taken care of. I have little fear.'
There was a somewhat grim set of Mr. Dallas's mouth in answer to this speech; his words however were 'smoother than butter.'
'You need have no fear,' he said. 'Miss Gainsborough, with her birth and beauty and breeding, will do—what you must wish her to do,—marry some one well able to take care of her; but—you are not doing her justice, colonel, in not giving her the education that should go with her birth and breeding. I speak as a friend; I trust you will not take it ill of me.'
'I cannot send her to England.'
'You do not need. There are excellent institutions of learning in this country now.'
'I do not know where.'
'My wife can tell you. She has some knowledge of such things, through friends who have daughters at school. She could tell you of several good schools for girls.'
'Where are they?'
'I believe in or near New York.'