I know not why, except that I once heard two officers speaking of her.

They said that they believed her family had quarrelled with her, for her marriage, and that she was too proud to go back again.

She had two girls, who must be about the age of this boy.

Her pension was not sufficient for her to live upon comfortably, and she opened a little school for the children of officers here.
"There are not many, you know, for they are generally sent home to England, when they are quite young.

But she has always had four or five, sometimes eight or ten.