CHAPTER V.
FROM MIRANDA HOPE TO HER MOTHER.
September 26th.
You must not be frightened at not hearing from me oftener; it is not because I am in any trouble, but because I am getting on so well.

If I were in any trouble I don't think I should write to you; I should just keep quiet and see it through myself.

But that is not the case at present and, if I don't write to you, it is because I am so deeply interested over here that I don't seem to find time.

It was a real providence that brought me to this house, where, in spite of all obstacles, I am able to do much good work.

I wonder how I find the time for all I do; but when I think that I have only got a year in Europe, I feel as if I wouldn't sacrifice a single hour.
The obstacles I refer to are the disadvantages I have in learning French, there being so many persons around me speaking English, and that, as you may say, in the very bosom of a French family.