Be unselfish, and whenever you can, give a helping hand to others -- for the world is full of suffering, my dear, and to alleviate it is the noblest end that we can set before us.
If you do that you will become a sweet and God-fearing woman, and make many people's lives a little brighter, and then you will not have lived, as so many of your sex do, in vain.

And now I have given you a lot of old-fashioned advice, and so I am going to give you something to sweeten it with.

You see this little piece of paper.

It is what is called a cheque.

When we are gone give it to your father with this note -- not before, mind.