Now, you must know that when I was about twenty-three years old I fell in love.

You never suspected me of that, I dare say ?' 'Why not ?' 'Well, I did fall in love.

The lady was a clergyman's daughter at Hereford, where I had a place in a school; she taught the infants in an elementary school connected with ours; her age was exactly the same as my own.

Now, the remarkable thing was that she took a liking for me, and when I was scoundrel enough to tell her of my feeling, she didn't reject me.' 'Scoundrel enough?
Why scoundrel ?' 'Why?
But I hadn't a penny in the world.

I lived at the school, and received a salary of thirty pounds, half of which had to go towards the support of my mother.