You can come home once in a while to see your sister, but you mustn't do it till I say the word.

If you do, I shall take the carfare out of your allowance, likewise board while you are here, and stop that allowance for a month as a sort of fine for mutiny.

So you better think it over a spell.

And, if I was you, I wouldn't write Caroline that I was coming, or thinking of coming, till I had my mind made up.

She believes you are working hard at your lessons.