To increase their resources she gave lessons in English to Belgians and even to German officers.

She offered herself to various groups of Belgian ladies who had taken up such charities as the Germans permitted.

She also asked to be taken on as a Red Cross helper.

But in all these directions she had many snubs to meet and little encouragement.
Scandal had been busy with her name--the unhappy reputation of her mother, the peculiar circumstances under which she had left England, the two or three months shut up at Tervueren with Colonel von Giesselin, and the very protection he now accorded her and her mother at the Hotel Imperial.

She felt herself looked upon almost as a pariah, except among the poor of Brussels in the Quartier des Marolles.