The mistress has been talking about if for some time.''Well, that's news to me . . . and to Amy as well. She doesn't want to go to any boarding school. Anyway, I thought that Mrs Filmore considered Madam DuvaPs Academy for Young Ladies'-he wrinkled his nose now-'the very last thing in education. In my opinion it's the very last thing in snobbery.''It's about time, Joseph, that you learned to keep your opinions to yourself.''Oh, Mam, I do, I do, because I have to. God knows why, and all of a sudden, when for years I've had the run of the place.' 458* You've been lucky. Yes, very lucky.' Lily's voice was high and sharp, but her son's was low and there was a puzzled note in it as he said, 'You've been telling me that for years on and off, Mam, and I'd really like to know why. All right, all right, they put me to a good school and now I'm in the Royal Grammar, and they're paying for me. And Mam, let me tell you, I know it, and I feel it, all the time I'm very aware that they're paying for me.''Well, that's because of your own makeup.
