She would not go with him, as beggars, to the father who had cast Gregory off; until, as he had said, she received absolute news of his death.
She was not in want; but as her pension was a small one, and she felt that it would be well for her to be employed, she asked Lady Hicks, before she left, to mention at the houses of the Egyptian ladies to whom she went to say goodbye, that Mrs.Hilliard would be glad to give lessons in English, French, or music.
The idea pleased them, and she obtained several pupils.

Some of these were the ladies themselves, and the lessons generally consisted in sitting for an hour with them, two or three times a week, and talking to them; the conversation being in short sentences, of which she gave them the English translation, which they repeated over and over again, until they knew them by heart.

This caused great amusement, and was accompanied by much laughter, on the part of the ladies and their attendants.
Several of her pupils, however, were young boys and girls, and the teaching here was of a more serious kind.

The lessons to the boys were given the first thing in the morning, and the pupils were brought to her house by attendants.

At eleven o'clock she taught the girls, and returned at one, and had two hours more teaching in the afternoon.