But if I went among strangers I couldn't tell the day or the hour it 'ud be too much for me, and I'd be stealing out of the house and taking the train back.

It isn't as if there was some one I could tell, some one that would hold me, that I could run to when the fit was on me." "Nora," I said, with a sudden thought, "how would it be if you were to come to me?
My grandmother will let me have a maid of my own when I want one.

Come to me, and Bridget Connor will teach you your duties, and you will have the little room off mine to sit and sew in.

You need never go outside the Abbey gates if you do not care to.

The place is big enough to walk about in.