I am his daughter.
"It doesn't seem right that such a nice girl as Rosa shouldn't have every chance to grow up good and happy.

So I am writing the school you mentioned, and sending them the money as you suggest.
"She will probably need some clothes, as they always look at a girl's clothes so when she goes to school.

I therefore enclose something for that.
"Trusting that everything will turn out well, I am "Yours sincerely, "MARY SPENCER.
"P.S.

I would like Rosa to write and tell me how she gets on at school." She wrote the school next and when that was done she sat back in her chair and looked out of the window at the birds and the flowers and the bees that flew among the flowers.
"What a queer thing it is--love, or whatever they call it," she thought.
"The things it has done to people--right in this house! I guess it's like fire--a good servant but a bad master--" She thought of what it had done to Josiah--and to Josiah's son.

She thought of what it had done to Ma'm Maynard, what it was doing to Helen, how it had left Aunt Cordelia and Aunt Patty untouched.
"It's like some sort of a fever," she told herself.