While I am teaching Miss Jasmine, Daisy can play or work as she pleases, only not by herself in your lodgings, young ladies, but in the room with her sister." So it was arranged, and the three girls might fairly have been said to commence their work.
When Primrose had gone to Mr.Danesfield and asked him to allow her to draw their little capital out of his bank, he had made wonderfully few objections.

Of all their friends, he was the one who had opposed Primrose's scheme the least, and perhaps for that reason she was more willing to take his advice, and to be guided by him, than by either Mrs.Ellsworthy or Miss Martineau.

Mr.Danesfield had said to her: "My dear, you and your sisters are in some particulars in a very unique and unfortunate position.

You are all three very young, yet you are absolutely your own mistresses.

No one in all the world has any real control over you.