"Oh, dear father, this has made me quite happy and has taken off the worst of my great pain.  I feel now that there is hope, for at the end of three years I shall be a well-educated girl--that is, if I win the Scholarship, and then perhaps you will allow me to come out to you to India.  I am not without hope, now, but I should be utterly and completely devoid of it if I had to go and live with Helen Dartmoor.