"Dear mother," she wrote, "we are trying for an extraordinary prize here, quite a valuable Scholarship, such as are given to men at the Universities, and I am going to have a big try for it, but I should like to talk things over with you.  I wonder if Aunt Susan would rise to the occasion, and let me have a third-class return ticket to Dawlish, and if you, Mummy, could secure a tiny room for me next yourself.  I want to spend a week with you during the coming holidays. I have a good deal to say and am rather anxious and miserable.  Try and arrange it with Aunt Susan.  It won't cost very much really, and I promise to return at the end of a week.