When Eve wrote, it was from a new address at Dudley.
After thanking him for the kind words with which he had sought to comfort her, she continued-- "I have at last found something to do, and it was quite time, for I have been very miserable, and work is the best thing for me.

Mr.
Welland, my first employer, when I was twelve years old, has asked me to come and keep his books for him, and I am to live in his house.

My brother has gone into lodgings, and we see no more of the cottage on Kate's Hill.

It's a pity I have to be so far from you again, but there seems to be no hope of getting anything to do in Birmingham, and here I shall be comfortable enough, as far as mere living goes.

On Sunday I shall be quite free, and will come over as often as possible; but I have caught a bad cold, and must be content to keep in the house until this dreadful weather changes.