Chapter 6 Summary

Julie's last year in elementary school will also be Aunt Cordelia's last year of teaching. The little school is being closed so that the country children can have the benefit of an education in a city school. Aunt Cordelia has declined an offer to transfer to the city school claiming that she is too set in her ways to adapt to the rules of a new school system.

Amazingly, Aunt Cordelia does not seem sad by this upcoming change, and Julie is concerned that there has been no mention of herself, who is supposed to leave at the end of the school year, too. Julie has heard whispers from other people that perhaps Julie is too strong willed for someone of Aunt Cordelia's age and assumes that Aunt Cordelia is only too happy that she will soon no longer be burdened with raising...