This impeccable spinster would never condone such an offence as that of which she had been guilty.

Neither did Lavinia wish the compromising affair to be known in the school and talked about.

She felt she had left conventional schooling for ever and she yearned to go back to life--but not the same life in which her early years had been passed.
Another worry was her shortness of money.

She had but a trifle left out of the guinea her brooch had fetched.

In the old days she could have soon earned a shilling or two by singing outside and inside taverns.