You are a thoughtless creature, but I suppose you have the sense to see that ?" "Yes, indeed, aunt," answered Letty.
"It is high time you should be thinking," Mrs.Wardour went on, "how you are to earn your bread.

If you left it till I was gone, you would find it very awkward, for you would have to leave Thornwick at once, and I don't know who would take you while you were looking out.

I must see you comfortably settled before I go." "Yes, aunt." "There are not many things you could do." "No, aunt; very few.

But I should make a better housemaid than most--I do believe that." "I am glad to find you willing to work; but we shall be able, I trust, to do a little better for you than that.

A situation as housemaid would reflect little credit on my pains for you--would hardly correspond to the education you have had." Mrs.Wardour referred to the fact that Letty was for about a year a day--boarder at a ladies' school in Testbridge, where no immortal soul, save that of a genius, which can provide its own sauce, could have taken the least interest in the chaff and chopped straw that composed the provender.
"It is true," her aunt went on, "you might have made a good deal more of it, if you had cared to do your best; but, such as you are, I trust we shall find you a very tolerable situation as governess." At the word, Letty's heart ran half-way up her throat.