I need not say that I hated her, and learned to loathe the life I fain would have laid down.

Do I tire you, Mr.Ford ?" "On the contrary, I am deeply interested," I replied.
She went on: "My grandmother was not poor; she was greedy.

She had a good income which died with her, and she strongly objected to spend it on me.

She paid for my education on the condition that when I could get my own living by teaching I should repay her.

Thank Heaven, I did so!" "Then you were a governess ?" I said.
"Yes; I began to get my own living at fifteen.