It was all ours once, though, Cousin Godfrey says.

Did you notice how the great oak sends its biggest arm over our field ?" "Yes." "Well, I often sit there under it, when I want to learn my lesson, and can't rest in the house; and that's how I know of the crack in the ha-ha." She said it in absolute innocence, but Tom laid it up in his mind.
"Are you at lessons still ?" he said.

"Have you a governess ?" "No," she answered, in a tone of amusement.

"But Cousin Godfrey teaches me many things." This made Tom thoughtful; and little more had been said, when they reached the gate of the yard behind the house, and she would not let him go a step farther..