Something should certainly be done for her--considering the family contingencies.

But being a strong evangelical, the aunt stipulated for "religious influences," and said she would write to a friend.
The result was that a month or two later Marcella, now close on her fourteenth birthday, was transferred from Cliff House to the charge of a lady who managed a small but much-sought-after school for young ladies at Solesby, a watering place on the east coast.
* * * * * But when in the course of reminiscence Marcella found herself once more at Solesby, memory began to halt and wander, to choose another tone and method.

At Solesby the rough surroundings and primitive teaching of Cliff House, together with her own burning sense of inferiority and disadvantage, had troubled her no more.

She was well taught there, and developed quickly from the troublesome child into the young lady duly broken in to all social proprieties.

But it was not her lessons or her dancing masters that she remembered.