Lavendar changed his mind?_ Her heart stood still at that. She
debated whether or not she should go down to the Rectory and find out
what the delay meant? Then she called to one of the servants who was
crossing the hall, that she wondered why the little boy who was to
visit her, did not come. Her face cleared at the reminder that the
child went to school in the morning.
"Why, of course! I suppose he will have to go every morning?" she
added ruefully.
"My," Maggie said smiling, "you're wan that ought to have six!"
Mrs. Richie smiled, too. Then she said to herself that she wouldn't
let him go to school every day; she was sure he was not strong enough.
She ventured something like this to Dr. Lavendar when, about four
o'clock, Goliath and the buggy finally appeared.
"Strong enough?" said Dr. Lavendar. "He's strong enough to study a
great deal harder than he does, the little rascal! I'm afraid Rose
Knight will spoil him; she's almost as bad as Ellen Bailey. You didn't
know our Ellen, did ye? No; she'd married Spangler and gone out West
before you came to us. Ah, a dear woman, but wickedly unselfish. Rose
Knight took the school when Spangler took Ellen." Then he added one or
two straight directions: Every school-day David was to come to the
Rectory for his dinner, and to Collect Class on Saturdays. "You will
have to keep him at his catechism," said Dr. Lavendar; "he is weak on
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