On the following day he spoke with her on a matter she was surprised to hear him mention, her education.

He had been thinking, he said, that she ought to learn to play the piano, and be taught foreign languages.

Wouldn't she like him to find some lady who could live in the house and teach her all these things?
Ida's thoughts at once ran to the conclusion that this had been suggested by Waymark, and, when she found that her grandfather really wished it, gave a ready assent.

A week or two later the suitable person had been discovered--a lady of some thirty years of age, by name Miss Hurst.

She was agreeable and refined, endowed, moreover, with the tact which was desirable in one undertaking an office such as this.