At the earliest possible moment Marian was sent to a day-school, and in her tenth year she went as weekly boarder to an establishment at Fulham; any sacrifice of money to insure her growing up with the tongue and manners of a lady.

It can scarcely have been a light trial to the mother to know that contact with her was regarded as her child's greatest danger; but in her humility and her love for Marian she offered no resistance.

And so it came to pass that one day the little girl, hearing her mother make some flagrant grammatical error, turned to the other parent and asked gravely: 'Why doesn't mother speak as properly as we do ?' Well, that is one of the results of such marriages, one of the myriad miseries that result from poverty.
The end was gained at all hazards.

Marian grew up everything that her father desired.

Not only had she the bearing of refinement, but it early became obvious that nature had well endowed her with brains.