Lady Fawn planned out the next day with great precision. After breakfast,
Lucy and the girls were to spend the morning in the old school-room, so
that there might be a general explanation as to the doings of the last six
months. They were to dine at three, and after dinner there should be the
discussion. "Will you come up to my room at four o'clock, my dear?" said
Lady Fawn, patting Lucy's shoulder, in the breakfast-parlour. Lucy knew
well why her presence was required. Of course she would come. It would be
wise to get it over, and have done with it.
At noon Lady Fawn, with her three eldest daughters, went out in the
carriage, and Lucy was busy among the others with books and maps and
sheets of scribbled music. Nothing was done on that day in the way of
instruction; but there was much of half-jocose acknowledgment of past
idleness, and a profusion of resolutions of future diligence. One or two
of the girls were going to commence a course of reading that would have
broken the back of any professor, and suggestions were made as to very
rigid rules as to the talking of French and German. "But as we can't talk
German," said Nina, "we should simply be dumb.
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