Mr.Arkwright felt that he must do what was best for my education: and he wrote to consult with Major Buller.
Fortunately for Eleanor and me, the Major was now as much prejudiced against girls' schools as he had been against governesses; and as masters were to be had at the nearest town, a home education was decided upon.

It met with the approval of such of my relatives as were consulted--my great-grandmother especially--and it certainly met with mine.
Eleanor and I were very anxious to show that idleness was not our object in avoiding Bush House.

The one of my diaries that escaped burning has, on the fly-leaf, one of the many "lesson plans" we made for ourselves.
We used to get up at six o'clock, and work before breakfast.

Certain morning headaches, to which at this time I became subject, led to a serious difference of opinion between me and Mrs.Arkwright; she forbidding me to get up, and I holding myself to be much aggrieved, and imputing the headaches to anything rather than what Keziah briefly termed "book-larning upon an empty stomach." The matter was compromised, thanks to Keziah, by that good creature's offering to bring me new milk and bread-and-butter every morning before I began to work.

She really brought it before I dressed, and my headaches vanished.
Though we did not wish to go back to Bush House, we were not quite unmindful of our friends there.