I'm going to a girls' school up the Hudson a little way--a lovely place, I'm sure, from the pictures of it.
"Oh, and another thing; I shall go right from here.

Two girls at Hampden Falls are going, and I shall go with them.

Isn't that a fine chance for me?
You see it would never do, anyway, for me to go alone--me, a 'Billy'-- unless I sent a special courier ahead to announce that 'Billy' was a girl.
"Aunt Hannah has decided to stay here this winter in the old house.

She likes it ever so much, and I don't think I shall sell the place just yet, anyway.

She will go back, of course, to Boston (after I've gone) to get some things at the house that she'll want, and also to do some shopping.