Tattle on her? Caroline's shock was unaffected, "Why no!" Then she added, trying to remain the adult in this situation (how odd to think that she truly was one now, she had been the baby of her family her so long), "I see no reason to. If you do not wish to swim then certainly you may return to your lessons." Although what child would choose lessons Caroline was not sure.

She was just going to have to resign herself to finding something else to, one, do at the present moment, and two, to entice Charity with in the future. She really did wish to start on the right foot with her new niece but the girl was having nothing to do with it. Caroline was much too good at reading people to ignore that simple fact.