I was wild for some that were already promised me.

Well, what would they amount to if I couldn't understand them when I got them?
THAT seemed to make it sure I would be compelled to go to school until I learned enough to understand what the books contained about birds, flowers, and moths, anyway; and perhaps there would be some having Fairies in them.

Of course those would be interesting.
I never hated doing anything so badly, in all my life, but I could see, with no one to tell me, that I had put it off as long as I dared.

I would just have to start school when Leon and May went in September.
Tilly Baher, who lived across the swamp near Sarah Hood, had gone two winters already, and she was only a year older, and not half my size.
I stood on the pulpit and looked a long time in every direction, into the sky the longest of all.

It was settled.