"I told your father, when he asked me, what I thought, before he had
made up his mind."
"What did you say?" she asked,--though she could have guessed correctly,
had he insisted upon it, but Silas was not in the mood.
"I said it should be done," he answered, seriously.
"I should go to school?"
"Yes, it is but right."
"Then why do you look so solemn?"
"You're going away from us."