Besides, Teresa was not absolutely destitute.

She received five hundred florins a year from an insurance office for life, with one half of which she not only supported the pair of them comfortably, but even left a margin for a little recreation.

The other half she carefully put by, that Fanny might have something when she herself was gone.

And the girl made a little money as well; she earned something by her needlework.

Oh, ye men and women who swim in luxury, you do not know what delight, what rapture it is when a young man or woman receives the reward of his honest labour for the first time; you know nothing of the proud consciousness of being self-sufficient, of being able to live without the compassion, without the assistance, of other people! And Fanny's work was very well paid, too! In the house where they lived there was an Hungarian cabinet-maker, who owned several houses in Pressburg, John Boltay by name.