"There is nothing whatever before you, Primrose, but to face the inevitable.

The inevitable means that you must break up your home--that you obtain, through the kind patronage of the Ellsworthys, a situation as governess, or companion, or something of that sort--and that the little girls, Jasmine and Daisy, are put into a good school for the orphan daughters of military men.

The Ellsworthys will use their influence toward this end.

They are very kind--they have taken up your cause warmly.

Primrose, my dear, it sounds hard, but plain speaking is best.