"I couldn't go to Lakeview Hall. It
would cost, why! a pile!"
"I don't know how much a pile is, translated into coin of the
realm, honey," responded Mrs. Sherwood with her low, sweet laugh.
"But the only thing we can give our dear daughter, your father
and I, is an education. That you MUST have to enable you to
support yourself properly when your father can do no more for
you."
"But I s'pose I've already had as much education as most girls in
Tillbury get. So many of them go into the mills and factories at
my age. If they can get along, I suppose I can."
"Hush!" begged her mother quickly. "Don't speak of such a thing.
I couldn't bear to have you obliged to undertake your own support
in any such way.
"Both your father and I, honey, had the benefit of more than the
ordinary common-school education. I went three years to the
Tennessee Training College; I was prepared to teach when your
father and I met and married. He obtained an excellent training
for his business in a technical college. We hoped to give our
children, if we were blessed with them, an even better start in
life than we had.
"Had your little brother lived, honey," added Mrs. Sherwood
tenderly, "we should have tried to put him through college, and
you, as well.
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