"What?"
"I am afraid they will not let me."
"I will arrange that."
"Very well," said Ellen, joyously, "then it will do. Oh, it would make me so happy! And you will write to me?"
"Certainly."
"And I will tell you everything about myself; and you will tell me how I ought to do in all sorts of things? that will be next best to being with you. And then you will keep me right."
"I won't promise you that, Ellie," said John, smiling; "you must learn to keep yourself right."
"I know you will, though, however you may smile. What next?"
"Read no novels."
"I never do, John. I knew you did not like it, and I have taken good care to keep out of the way of them. If I had told anybody why, though, they would have made me read a dozen."