I had fortunately learnt a great deal with the old lady in Tottenham, or I couldn't have satisfied them for a day.

I'm sure I did what few people could have done, and for all that they treated me from almost the first very badly.

I had to be housemaid as well as lady's maid; the slavery left me every night worn out with exhaustion.

And I hadn't even enough to eat.

As time went on, they treated me worse and worse.