Then followed our own ruin, and my father's paralytic seizure.

To help my parents and support myself, I came to you as governess.

You know, dearest Freda, how happy your dear mother made me as long as she lived, and how ardently I desired to fulfil her dying wish that I should finish your education.

Most thankful I am that I was permitted to do so.
'I need not tell you, over and over again, the sad story of my mother's death, and my return home to live with my father, and become a daily instead of a resident governess.

All the happiness I have known--at least the greatest--since our troubles, has been in this house.
'But this has nothing to do with Mr Jones.