Was there anything lacking ? I observed Betty very closely during the next week or so , riding over to Glenby every day and riding back at night , meditating upon my observations . Eventually I concluded to do what I had never thought myself in the least likely to do . I would send Betty to a boarding-school for a year . It was necessary that she should learn how to live with other girls . I went over to Glenby the next day and found Betty under the beeches on the lawn , just back from a canter . She was sitting on the dappled mare I had given her on her last birthday , and was laughing at the antics of her rejoicing dogs around her . I looked at her with much pleasure ; it gladdened me to see how much , nay , how totally a child she still was , despite her Churchill height . Her hair , under her velvet cap , still hung over her shoulders in the same thick plaits ; her face had the firm leanness of early youth , but its curves were very fine and delicate . The brown skin , that worried Sara so , was flushed through with dusky color from her gallop ; her long , dark eyes were filled with the beautiful unconsciousness of childhood . More than all , the soul in her was still the soul of a child . I found myself wishing that it could always remain so . But I knew it could not ; the woman must blossom out some day ; it was my duty to see that the flower fulfilled the promise of the bud . When I told Betty that she must go away to a school for a year , she shrugged , frowned and consented . Betty had learned that she must consent to what I decreed , even when my decrees were opposed to her likings , as she had once fondly believed they never would be . But Betty had acquired confidence in me to the beautiful extent of acquiescing in everything I commanded . `` I 'll go , of course , since you wish it , Stephen , '' she said . `` But why do you want me to go ? You must have a reason -- you always have a reason for anything you do . What is it ? ''
`` That is for you to find out , XXXXX , '' I said .
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