`` You can go if you want to . I 'll give you all the money I can spare . It ai n't much , but perhaps it 'll be enough for a start . '' `` Oh , Aunt Rebecca , thank you ! '' exclaimed Jane Lavinia , crimson with conflicting feelings . `` But perhaps I ought n't to take it -- perhaps I ought n't to leave you alone -- '' If Aunt Rebecca had shown any regret at the thought of Jane Lavinia 's departure , Jane Lavinia would have foregone New York on the spot . But Aunt Rebecca only said coldly , `` I guess you need n't worry over that . I can get along well enough . '' And with that it was settled . Jane Lavinia lived in a whirl of delight for the next week . She felt few regrets at leaving Chestercote . Aunt Rebecca would not miss her ; Jane Lavinia thought that Aunt Rebecca regarded her as a nuisance -- a foolish girl who wasted her time making pictures instead of doing something useful . Jane Lavinia had never thought that Aunt Rebecca had any affection for her . She had been a very little girl when her parents had died , and Aunt Rebecca had taken her to bring up . Accordingly she had been `` brought up , '' and she was grateful to Aunt Rebecca , but there was no closer bond between them . Jane Lavinia would have given love for love unstintedly , but she never supposed that Aunt Rebecca loved her . On the morning of departure Jane Lavinia was up and ready early . Her trunk had been taken over to Mr. Whittaker 's the night before , and she was to walk over in the morning and go with Mr. and Mrs. Stephens to the station . She put on her chiffon hat to travel in , and Aunt Rebecca did not say a word of protest . Jane Lavinia cried when she said good-by , but Aunt Rebecca did not cry .
She shook hands and said stiffly , `` Write when you get XXXXX New York .
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