nine in the morning
I simply ca n't let Marilla go . I did n't adopt her nor consider her in any sense my own . A child like that is n't worth more than her board and clothes . What good would she be to us if we had to get her off at nine in the morning , and then have only an hour in the afternoon . The twins _ must _ be taken out , and there 's so much running up and down . She 's a nice honest , truthful child and a born nurse girl . But if I had to send her to school , I 'd trot her off to the Home . ''