Then you alone are to blame for the present trouble, and it rests with you to remove it.

For my sake, go back to school, promise to do right in future, and ask to be reinstated.

Will not this be better than going to sea, or leaving your father's house, as you thoughtlessly threatened to do just now ?" The tender earnestness with which Mrs.Howland spoke, more than the reasons she urged, subdued the stubborn spirit of the boy.
"You know how determined your father is," she continued.

"In his intention to send you to sea he is entirely in earnest, and nothing will prevent his doing so but your going back to school.

You threaten to run away.