She wished to surprise him some day, after every thing was going on prosperously.
But a matter of so much interest to the neighborhood could not remain a secret.

The school had not been in operation two days before the baron heard all about it.

But he said nothing to his daughter.

He wished to leave her the pleasure which he knew she desired, that of telling him herself.
At the end of a month Nina presented her father with an account of what she had done with the money he had placed in her hands.

The expenditure had been moderate enough, but the good done was far beyond the baron's anticipations.