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`` Degree ! '' said the countess . `` Why , Frank , I am talking to you of your prospects in life , of your future position , of that on which everything hangs , and you tell me of your degree ! '' Frank , however , obstinately persisted that he must take his degree , and that he should commence reading hard at six a.m. to-morrow morning . `` You can read just as well at Courcy Castle . Miss Dunstable will not interfere with that , '' said his aunt , who knew the expediency of yielding occasionally ; `` but I must beg you will come over and meet her . You will find her a most charming young woman , remarkably well educated I am told , and -- '' `` How old is she ? ''