Mr.Hamilton and I had already discussed the sisters' future.
'I am afraid they will be terribly pinched,' he said once.

'Miss Locke is suffering now from years of overwork.

She will never be able to work as hard as she has done.

And she has to provide for that child Kitty, as well as for poor Phoebe.' 'We must think what is to be done,' I replied.

'Miss Locke is a very good manager: she is careful and thrifty.