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`` Oh , something will be sure to happen , '' she would have answered . `` What is the use of planning , no one knows what the future may bring . '' Miss Ashe 's idea , on the other hand , was that with a good education any child had , at any rate , one strong weapon with which to fight her way . At Dorsham the post did not come in until ten o'clock , so that there was no correspondence to discuss over the breakfast-table . Not that the children expected any letters ; they had never received one in their lives . Breakfast over , Miss Ashe was a little at a loss to know what to do with her charges ; her life had suddenly become so changed and complicated , that the little lady had difficulty in grappling with it all at once . `` I think you may like to go out and look about you , '' she said at last .