She had taken her degree the year before.

After that, she would go to London and commence her work.
"Let me know what allowance you would like me to make you, when you have thought it out.

Things are not what they were at the works, but there will always be enough to keep you in comfort," he had told her.

She had fixed it there and then at two hundred a year.

She would not take more, and that only until she was in a position to keep herself.
"I want to prove to myself," she explained, "that I am capable of earning my own living.