Mrs.Ellsworthy tells me that she has been consulting your old friend Mr.Danesfield about you.

Both he and Mrs.
Ellsworthy are arranging plans which they trust you will all listen to with patience.

These plans shall be fully disclosed to you on your return to town, but I may as well mention here that it will be absolutely necessary that you should give up your present lives, and should enter seriously on the great work of education.

Money must be spent for this object; but when you are able to earn well, bye-and-bye it will be in your power to repay the money to the kind friends whose happiness it is now to lend it to you.
"Dear Primrose, "I am, yours affectionately, "AGNES EGERTON." There was much in this letter to pain Primrose, and a year before she might have torn it up and determined in no way to be guided by it; but a year had brought her some very strange and some very sad experiences.

She was troubled and shocked to think that Jasmine should have taken poor Poppy's hard earnings.