'When my mother died, I determined to have done with teaching--you know that.

I disliked it too much, and partly, of course, because I was incapable.

Half my teaching was a sham--a pretence of knowing what I neither knew nor cared to know.

I had gone into it like most girls, as a dreary matter of course.' 'Like poor Alice, I'm afraid.' 'Oh, it's a distressing subject.

When my mother left me that little sum of money I took a bold step.