I know you know it.

Now, be right down honest; wouldn't you like to have a couple of years, say, at a school like that, if you could have 'em just as well as not?
Didn't you say not more'n a fortni't ago that you was glad Irene Mullet was goin' to have such a chance to improve herself ?" Mary-'Gusta had said that very thing; she could not truthfully deny it.
"Of course I did," she answered.

"And I am glad.

But Irene's case and mine are different.

Irene isn't needed at home.