Catalina
herself wished to teach her at home. This decision caused me many tears and
complainings.
Teresa tried to console me. "Don't worry," she said, "just wait a little. I
know Catalina, she'll soon tire of teaching, and then she'll let Paula go
to school with you." Teresa was right In the beginning Catalina was
enchanted with the task. Paula was obedient, and she did the best she
could; but she didn't learn very quickly, therefore Catalina soon tired,
and Paula, with a teacher so inexperienced, became sleepy and inattentive.
So it was that the teacher tired the pupil and the pupil tired the teacher.
Catalina was the first to complain. "Paula doesn't care much for study,"
she said to her father. "I'm afraid I am wasting my time trying to teach
her."
"Well, then," said my father, "perhaps the best thing will be to send her
along to school with Lisita."
Catalina hesitated a moment. She wished to do something for others, but she
was slow to learn how.
"I think it would be better to let her go," she said resignedly.
So it was that the following Monday my father accompanied us both to school
and duly inscribed her as a student. Paula immediately became the center of
great interest on the part of my school-companions.
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