She missed Percy, who was in training with his regiment, but since the advent of their new governess, Letty and Mamie had grown more sensible, and proved quite pleasant companions.

Letty especially seemed suddenly to have awakened, so far as her intellectual capacities were concerned.

She had begun to devour Scott and Dickens, took a keen interest in nature study, and tried--sometimes with rather comical effect--to be extremely superior and grown-up.
"She's far cleverer really than I am," thought Winona.

"Pity she's not at the Seaton High! She'd be the star of her form directly.

I wish she could get a scholarship some day." With her school experience in coaching juniors, Winona was able to give her family some drilling in the matter of cricket, though she did not find that younger brothers and sisters proved such docile pupils as the members of III.a.and III.b.