But Kitty understood, and in her heart she vowed that nothing should prevent her writing, neither health, nor work, nor other interests.

Dan wanted her letters, and Dan should have them.
But it was after he was gone that the blow of his departure was felt most, and then the blank seemed almost too great to be borne.

It was so great that the girls were really almost glad when their own school opened, that they might have an entirely new life in place of the old one so changed.
"Though I would rather go right away, ever so far, to a boarding school," declared Betty, "where everything and everybody would be quite, quite different." But Kitty could not agree to this.

It was quite bad enough for her as it was; to leave Gorlay would be more than she could bear.
"Hillside," the school to which they were being sent--the only one of its kind in Gorlay, in fact--was about ten minutes' walk from Dr.
Trenire's house.

It was quite a small school, consisting of about a dozen pupils only, several of whom were boarders; and Miss Richards (the head of it), Miss Melinda (her sister), and a French governess instructed the twelve.
"It is not, in the strict sense of the word, a school," Miss Richards always remarked to the parents of new pupils.