Dora tells BR "... I am afraid I do not assent to Dartington: I think your insistence on sending them and your rejection of every alternative is a breach of our equal rights, and of the undertaking given by you when the deed was signed that I should be allowed to make a home for them if this school closes."

Dora tells BR that, as he has legal custody there is nothing she can do to prevent him from sending John and Kate to Dartington. "I think they may be happy at Dartington, but they will be unable to judge of the effect of the education there."