"She says so, my love.  I am sorry to have to tell you, but it is a fact.  She says that you are going on sixteen, and that at sixteen you ought to be a very good pupil teacher at another school, where your services would be given in lieu of payment.  She says she knows a school in the country where you would be taken, a place called Stoneley Hall, where there are sixty girls.  It is up amongst the Yorkshire moors, in the dreariest spot, I make no doubt.  Well, in her letter she said that she had arranged that you are to go to Stoneley Hall at Christmas, and that the next term is your last at Cherry Court School."