However, I think it is worth a trial." Hetty said nothing, only wondered why Miss Davis was not more wildly glad at the thought of being always with her mother.

She could not realize how long years of trial and disappointment had made it impossible to the governess to feel vivid anticipations of delight.
"Now as regards you--" Hetty started.

She had so completely thrown herself into Miss Davis's personality for the moment that she had entirely forgotten her own.

"As regards you, I have been thinking that you might come with me and help me as an under teacher.

In this way you might begin to be independent at the age of sixteen, and at the same time continue your own studies under my superintendence.