To think you are the only girl I ever played with, and now when you come back at Christmas--" "I am not to come back then, John.

I am to stay with my uncles in Baltimore and not come home until next June." "You will be a young lady in long skirts and your hair tucked up.

It's dreadful." "Can't be helped, John.

You will look after Lucy, and write to me." "And you will write to me, Leila ?" "If I may.

Aunt says they are very strict.