"No; you need not pack your trunk: Agnes shall do it under my supervision.

But it shall not be sent till the return of the children from school this afternoon, as I still hope to see you with them." Grace, who was present, stood listening in wide-eyed astonishment.
"What is it all about ?" she asked in alarm.

"Is Lulu going away ?" "Yes," Lulu answered for herself; "Grandpa Dinsmore says if I won't take lessons of Signor Foresti I must stay at Oakdale as a boarding-scholar." "O Lu, Lu! do give up and come back home," entreated Grace, bursting into tears; "I can't do without you, you know I can't ?" Lulu drew her aside and whispered words of comfort.
"It can't be for so very long, I think, Grace; because we'll all be going back to Ion in two or three months.

Besides, we can see each other every day, if you keep on coming in the carriage as you've been doing." "But it will be only for a few minutes, and you won't have a bit nice time there." "No, I suppose, not; but even if it's pretty hard, I'd rather stay there than give up to that old tyrant." "Please don't say that," pleaded Grace; "I love Grandpa Dinsmore." When the carriage came to the door after breakfast, and the children trooped down ready for school, Grandma Elsie joined them on the veranda, wishing them a happy and profitable day at their studies; then putting an arm about Lulu she said to her in an undertone, "Lulu, dear child, I want to see you here with the rest to-night; you are one of my little girls, and I would not have you so rebellious that you must be shut out from my house.

There! you need not answer, dear; only remember that Grandma Elsie loves you, and longs to see you good and happy." "Thank you, ma'am; you're very good and kind," Lulu said a little tremulously, then hurried into the carriage, Max giving her the help of his hand.
The others were already in, and as Max took the only vacant seat, by Lulu's side, he noticed that her face was very red, and that Grace was crying.
"What's the matter ?" he asked, glancing from one to the other.
"Lulu's not coming home with us to-night; she's going to board at Oakdale, she says," sobbed Grace.
"Is that so?
What for ?" asked Max, looking at Lulu.
"Because Grandpa Dinsmore says I must, if I won't take lessons of Signor Foresti." It was news to Evelyn, Rose, and Walter as well as to Max, they having heard nothing of it before.