The children were still attending Miss Harmon's school, though they were to leave at Christmas.
"We are late nearly every day now you are not here to make Ernie start," wrote Mamie, almost as if it were an achievement to be proud of.
"He locked the piano and threw the key in the garden, and we could none of us practice for three days.

Wasn't it lovely?
Letty pours out tea if mother isn't in, and yesterday she broke the teapot." The chief items of news, however, concerned Percy.

That young gentleman, with what Aunt Harriet considered his usual perversity, had sprained his ankle on the very day before he ought to have returned to school.

He had been ordered to lie up on the sofa, but Winona gathered that the doctor's directions had not been very strictly carried out.

She strongly suspected that the patient did not wish to recover too quickly.