Here comes Lady Shaw and we won't
waste time getting to business."
That night, as Pauline and Hilary were in
their own room, busily discussing, for by no
means the first time that day, what Uncle Paul
had said to Hilary that morning, and just
how he had looked, when he said it, and was
it at all possible that father would consent,
and so on, _ad libitum_, their mother tapped at the door.
Pauline ran to open it. "Good news, or
not?" she demanded. "Yes, or no, Mother Shaw?"
"That is how you take it," Mrs. Shaw
answered. She was glad, very glad, that this
unforeseen opportunity should be given her
daughters; and yet--it meant the first break
in the home circle, the first leaving home for them.
Mr. Paul Shaw left the next morning.
"I'll try and run up for a day or two, before
the girls go to school," he promised his
sister-in-law. "Let me know, as soon as you have
decided _where_ to send them."
Patience was divided in her opinion, as to
this new plan. It would be lonesome without
Paul and Hilary; but then, for the time
being, she would be, to all intents and purposes,
"Miss Shaw." Also, Bedelia was not going
to boarding-school--on the whole, the
arrangement had its advantages.
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