I expect that I shall conclude to stay here, and live in this house alone for some years to come, and the children can not go to school, for there is now nobody to take them, and it is too far for them to go alone.

I must teach them myself at home, or else they can not learn.

I am very sorry indeed now that I did not learn to read and write when I was a child: for that would have saved me the time and trouble of learning now.

But I think I _can_ learn now.

Don't you think I can, Mary ?" "Oh, yes, indeed," said Mary Bell, "I am sure you can.