While I was engaged, I went to Mr.Bird's school for girls in Deir el Kamr, and taught there for more than a year.

I was married by Mr.Bird in his own house to M.Yusef Barakat, and then we went to Hasbeiya.

I stayed there seven months and then went to Beirut, and thence to Damascus with my husband, because he had to teach there.

I had nothing to do there but to look after my house, my little boy, and my husband.
After some time, the massacre broke out in Damascus, (July 9, 1860,) so we came back as refugees to Beirut.

Soon after my husband was taken ill and then died.