It is very kind of the doctor to allow it.

Will you see that his things are all ready by Friday, when I shall take him up to town, and send him down the next day by himself." Mrs.Brown was prepared for the announcement, and merely suggested a doubt whether Tom were yet old enough to travel by himself.

However, finding both father and son against her on this point, she gave in, like a wise woman, and proceeded to prepare Tom's kit for his launch into a public school..