"Well," said she, "folks must do as they think best about their own children.

I have always thought a good deal of an education myself.

I was brought up that way." She looked with eyes that were fairly cruel at Eva Loud and Fanny, who had been a Loud, who had both stopped going to school at a very early age.
Then the rich red flamed over Eva's forehead and neck as well as her cheeks.

There was nothing covert about her, she would drag an ambushed enemy forth into the open field even at the risk of damaging disclosures regarding herself.
"Why don't you say jest what you mean, right out, Jennie Stebbins ?" she demanded.

"You are hintin' that Fanny and me never had no education, and twittin' us with it." "It wa'n't our fault," said Fanny, no less angrily.
"No, it wa'n't our fault," assented Eva.