‘Oh, but I do want to be thoroughly well educated. I meant to go through them all, like Gillian and Mysie, and I am sure father must wish it too. I know he meant it when he went out last year.’ ‘Yes, he did,’ said Miss Mohun. ‘It was very unlucky that he did not get any of our later letters.’ ‘I have tried to tell him that it is all different now, but he does not seem to care,’ said Dolores. ‘He has quite made up his mind,’ said her aunt. ‘Has he quite?’ said Dolores. ‘I thought perhaps if you talked to him about the examination and the confirmation too--’ ‘But, Dolly, you are not going to a heathen country. Your confirmation will be as much attended to in New Zealand as here.’ ‘Oh, but I should be confirmed with Mysie, and Aunt Lily would read with me, and help me!’ ‘Yes, I see.’ ‘Do please tell him. Aunt Jane. He heeds what you say more than any one. Do tell him that the only hope of my being good is if I stay with Aunt Lily just these few years!’ ‘Ah, Dolly, that is what you really mean and care about--not the Cambridge business.’ ‘Of course it is. Please tell him, Aunt Jane--somehow I can’t--that I was bad and foolish when I wrote all the letters he had; but now I know better, and--and--I don’t want to vex him, but I shall be ever so much better a daughter to him if he will leave me with Aunt Lily, to learn some of her goodness’--and there were tears in her eyes, for these months had softened her greatly. ‘My poor Dolly!’ said Aunt Jane, much more tenderly than she generally spoke. ‘I am very sorry for you. I do think Aunt Lily has been the making of you, and that it is very hard that you should have to be uprooted from her, just as you had learnt to value her, I will tell your father so; but honestly, I do not think it is likely to make him change his mind.’