But Father didn't seem to hear.

He was still tramping up and down the room, his hands in his pockets.
"Charles!" Aunt Jane raised her voice and spoke again.

"I said if Mary is going to school at all to-day it is high time she was starting." "Eh?
What ?" If you'll believe it, that man looked as dazed as if he'd never even _heard_ of my going to school.

Then suddenly his face changed.

"Oh, yes, to be sure.