I was not fit to have children, if I sacrificed their wellbeing to his caprice and his whim, but that was what I did.

I have been a poor mother, and an unfaithful friend, and an unjust mistress.

Women like me have no business to marry....
"You don't remember Annie, do you?
She was second housemaid, the best servant I ever had.

She was engaged to William, the footman with the curly hair.

He is butler now at Barford.