nine in the morning
`` Mother says , '' mumbled John-James , `` that happen later Vassie could go to what they do call a boarding school to Plymouth church town , seen ' as the money wo n't be Ishmael 's yet awhile ... . Only she must learn to cipher and make nadlework flowers afore go , or the other maids 'll mock at she . '' `` I can teach the ciphering but not the needlework flowers , I fear , '' said the Parson , laughing ; `` my housekeeper will have to be called in over that . Well , you tell Vassie to be here by nine in the morning and she shall begin her education . Whether she sticks to it is her own affair . '' `` She 'll stick to it , '' prophesied John-James . `` She 'm terrible proud , is Vassie . ''