He found her the deputy mother of a boy of nine, a crippled boy of seven, and a younger child.

Her mother was a widow and a blouse-maker.

She paid five shillings a week rent.

Here are the last items in her housekeeping account: Tea.

0.5d.; sugar, 0.5d.; bread, 0.25d.; margarine, 1d.; oil, 1.5d.; and firewood, 1d.