"I have been looking about for a means of doing so, and I think that I have succeeded." Mr.Bullsom took off his spectacles and wiped them carefully.
"Earn your own living, eh!" he repeated.

"Well! Go on!" Mary leaned across the table towards him.
"Don't think that I am not grateful for all you have done for me, uncle," she said.

"I am, indeed.

Only I have felt lately that it was my duty to order my life a little differently.

I am young and strong, and able to work.