"I try to do what I can in my little community here, very much as you, in a far greater way, try to study the people in your political programme.

Of course," she went on, "it is far easier for me.

The one thing I try to develop amongst them is a genuine, not a false spirit of independence.

I want them to lean upon no one.

I have no charities in connection with the estate, no soup kitchens or coal at Christmas, or anything of that sort.