spirited but no wiser it would be a fine thing to be you miss she said one night when had endeavoured to make her for next day something clearer to her do you think so i should know so much miss all that is difficult to me now would be so easy then you might not be the better for it submitted after a little hesitation i should not be the worse miss to which miss answered i don t know there had been so little communication between these two � both because life at stone lodge went round like a piece of machinery which discouraged human interference and because of the relative to s past career � that they were stiu almost strangers with her dark eyes directed to s face was uncertain whether to say more or to remain silent you are more useful to my mother and more pleasant with her i can ever be resumed you are pleasanter to yourself than i am to my self but if you please miss pleaded i am � o so stupid with a brighter laugh than usual told her she would be wiser by and by you don t know said half crying what a stupid girl i am all through school hours i make mistakes mr and mrs m call me up over and over again regularly to make mistakes i can t help them they to come natural to me mr and mrs m never make any mistakes themselves i suppose o no she eagerly returned they know everything tell me some of your mistakes i am almost ashamed said with reluctance but to day for instance mr m was explaining te us about natural prosperity national i think it must have been observed yes it was � but isn t it the same she timidly asked you had better say national as he said so returned with her dry reserve national prosperity and he said now this is a nation and in this nation there are fifty millions of money isn t this a prosperous nation girl number twenty isn t this a prosperous nation and a n t you in a state what did you say asked miss i said i didn t know i thought i couldn t know whether it was a prosperous nation or not and i was in a state or not unless i knew who had got the money and whether any of it was mine but that had nothing to do with it it was not in the figures at all said wiping her eyes that was a great mistake of yours observed yes miss i know it was now then mr m said he would try me again and he said this is an immense town and in it there are a million of inhabitants and only five and twenty are starved to death in the streets in the course of a year what is your remark on that proportion and my remark was � for i couldn t tl of a better one � that i thought it must be just as hard upon those who were starved whether the were a or a million million and that was wrong too of course it was then mr m said he would try me once more and he said here are the � said yes miss � they always remind me of and that s of my mistakes � of accidents upon the sea and i find mr m said that in a given time a hundred thousand persons went to sea on long voyages and only five hundred of them were drowned or burnt to death what is the and i said miss here fairly sobbed as with extreme to her greatest error i said it was nothing nothing nothing miss � to the relations and friends of the people who were killed i shall never learn said i and the worst of all is that although my poor father wished me times much to learn and although i am so anxious to learn because he wished me to i am afraid i don t like it stood looking at the pretty modest head as it drooped abashed before her until it was raised again to glance at her face then she ae ed did your father know so much himself that he wished you to be well taught too hesitated before replying and so plainly showed her sense that they were entering on forbidden ground that added no one hears us and if any one did i am sure no harm could be found in such an innocent question no miss answered upon this encouragement shaking her head father knows very little indeed it s as much as he can do to write and it s more than people in general can do to read his writing though it s plain to me j your mother father says she was quite a scholar she died when i was bom she was made the terrible communication nervously she was a did your father love her asked these questions with a strong wild wandering interest peculiar to her an interest gone astray like a banished creature and hiding in solitary places o yes as dearly as he loves me father loved me first for her sake he carried me about with him when i was quite a baby we have never been asunder from that time yet he leaves you now only for my good nobody understands him as i do nobody knows him as i do when he left me for my good � he never would have left me for his own � i know he was almost broken hearted with the trial he wiu not be happy for a single minute tiu he comes ba k teu me more about him said i will never ask you again where did you live we travelled about 