"Well, it was in this way. We had no governess; we used to go to a sort of school--not the Merrimans', for they had not started one at the time--and I used to teach the little children, and things were rather at sixes and sevens. Not that father ever minded, for he is the sort of man who just lets you do what you like, and I think that is why we have grown up nicer than most girls."