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Philip did not want to send Lily to school. He and his wife had been at one upon this point. He regretted even the three months that she had spent at the convent, although he remarked at intervals for long afterwards that a girls' school and a convent were not at all the same thing.
"Besides, my little pet, you were only there for a month or two, and you were not at all well when you came away. It wasn't at all a success."