It was a move towards London, and I couldn't rest till I had come the whole way.

My first engagement here was as shorthand writer to the secretary of a company.

But he soon wanted some one who could use a typewriter.
That was a suggestion.

I went to learn typewriting, and the lady who taught me asked me in the end to stay with her as an assistant.

This is her house, and here I live with her.' 'How energetic you have been!' 'How fortunate, perhaps.