She got on well with Mrs.
Ledward, and had been able to make comfortable arrangements for Ida.
The other lodgers in the house were generally very quiet and orderly people, and she herself was quite successful in arranging her affairs so as to create no disturbance.

She had her regular _clientele_; she frequented the roads about Regent's Park and Primrose Hill; and she supported herself and her child.
Ida Starr's bringing up was in no respect inferior to that she would have received in the home of the average London artisan or small tradesman.

At five years old she had begun to go to school; Mrs.
Ledward's daughter, a girl of seventeen, took her backwards and forwards every day.

At this school she remained three years and a half; then her mother took her away, and put her under the care of Miss Rutherford, a better teacher.

When at home, she either amused herself in Lotty's room, or, when that was engaged, made herself comfortable with Mrs.Ledward's family, with one or other of whom she generally passed the night.