Will you, my dear friend, take the eldest into
your family, and give her a governess's salary, although she cannot
teach? and will you, my other beloved friend, speak to the editor of
the magazine you most admire, and ask him to accept poems which do not
scan, and stories which are the feeble productions of an ambitious
child? And will you, my last friend, come to the rescue by employing a
certain sweet little girl to look after your kittens?' Arthur, how can
those girls be independent unless they are taught?"
"Still I believe the girls can be helped; and that it is the right and
only thing to do," said Noel. "I propose to talk to Miss Egerton about
them. I will ask her to go into figures with me, and to state what sum
she thinks ought to be expended on their education. She probably knows
something about what talents they have by this time. After she and I
have talked our plans over together we will ask you whether you are
inclined to advance the necessary money. If you say 'Yes,' Miss
Egerton will speak to the girls, and tell them quite openly what you
are doing, and appeal to their common sense not to reject their only
real chance of obtaining an independence bye-and-bye.
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