And you're goin' to do as we say." "But--" "There ain't any 'buts.' The 'buts' are all past and gone.

Mr.Keith has arranged for you to board and room along with Mrs.Wyeth and I've arranged for your schoolin' at the Cabot place.

Yes, and I've done more'n that: I paid for your first year's schoolin' this very afternoon.
So there! THAT'S ended." It was not ended, of course.

Mary-'Gusta went to her room that night declaring she would not leave her uncles to attend any finishing school.
They went to theirs vowing that she should.

The real end came the next day when Zoeth put the subject before her in a new light by saying: "Look here, Mary-'Gusta; just listen to me a minute and think.