She said the course would be only the same thing over again, with so little change or advancement, that the trip was not worth the time and money it would cost.

She proposed that Kate go to Lake Chautauqua and take the teachers' course, where all spare time could be put in attending lectures, and concerts, and studying the recently devised methods of education.

Kate went from her to Nancy Ellen and Robert, determined at heart to go.
She was pleased when they strongly advised her to, and offered to help her get ready.

Aside from having paid Agatha, and for her board, Kate had spent almost nothing on herself.

She figured the probable expenses of the trip for a month, what it would cost her to live until school began again, if she were forced to go to Walden, and then spent all her remaining funds on the prettiest clothing she had ever owned.