didn't go to work just the right way about their schooling.
We ought to have got them into some school where they'd
have got acquainted with city girls--girls who could help
them along.

Nearly everybody at Miss Smillie's was from some where else."

"Well, it's pretty late to think about that now,"
grumbled Lapham.

"And we've always gone our own way, and not looked
out for the future. We ought to have gone out more,
and had people come to the house. Nobody comes."

"Well, is that my fault? I guess nobody ever makes
people welcomer."

"We ought to have invited company more."

"Why don't you do it now? If it's for the girls, I don't
care if you have the house full all the while."

Mrs. Lapham was forced to a confession full of humiliation.
"I don't know who to ask."

"Well, you can't expect me to tell you."

"No; we're both country people, and we've kept our
country ways, and we don't, either of us, know what to do.
You've had to work so hard, and your luck was so long coming,