(You see what a perfectly wildly exciting life Mary is living! And when I think of how _full_ of good times Mother wanted every minute to be.

But that was for Marie, of course.) The next morning after breakfast Aunt Jane said: "You will spend your forenoon studying, Mary.

See that you learn well your lessons, so as not to annoy your father." "Yes, Aunt Jane," said Mary, polite and proper, and went upstairs obediently; but even Mary didn't know exactly how to study those lessons.
Carrie had brought me all my books from school.

I had asked her to when I knew that I was not going back.

There were the lessons that had been assigned for the next day, of course, and I supposed probably Father would want me to study those.