Mamma quite understands that you are to come; so you have only got to ask your own mamma, and come at once.
This letter, as the reader will understand, did not reach Grace Crawley till after the all-important Thursday; but before that day had come round, Grace had told Miss Prettyman,--had told both the Miss Prettymans--that she was resolved to leave them.

She had done this without even consulting her mother, driven to it by various motives.

She knew that her father's conduct was being discussed by the girls in the school, and that things were said of him which it could not but be for the disadvantage of Miss Prettyman that any one should say of a teacher in her establishment.

She felt, too, that she could not hold up her head in Silverbridge in these days, as it would become her to do if she retained her position.

She did struggle gallantly, and succeeded much more nearly than she was herself aware.