They only saw a poor girl broken in spirit, who spoke in a low and gentle voice, and from underneath whose downcast lids tears would sometimes steal which she strove to hide.
One who loved to be alone, and shrunk from observation; who never smiled; oh, no! I never smiled--and that was all.
Well, I escaped.

I left my guardian's house and I was never heard of again; it was believed from the letters that I left and other circumstances that I planned that I had destroyed myself.

I was sought after therefore with less care than would otherwise have been the case; and soon all trace and memory of me was lost.

I left London in a small vessel bound for a port in the north of England.

And now having succeeded in my attempt, and being quite alone peace returned to me.
The sea was calm and the vessel moved gently onwards, I sat upon deck under the open canopy of heaven and methought I was an altered creature.