"Have you got money in it ?" she asked.
"No; only a few family papers, and a letter from my father, introducing me to an elderly lady in England--a connection of his by marriage, whom I have never seen.

The lady has consented to receive me as her companion and reader.

If I don't return to England soon, some other person may get the place." "Have you no other resource ?" "None.

My education has been neglected--we led a wild life in the far West.

I am quite unfit to go out as a governess.