Why not leave England altogether?
She had nothing to keep her here.

She had a cousin--a clergyman--in New Zealand, whom she had never seen, but who had read "Jemima's Vow," and written her a kind letter about it.

That was the one delightful thing about writing books; one made friends all over the world.

Surely he would take her in for a while, and put her in the way of earning a living where Meeson would not be to molest her?
Why should she not go?
She had twenty pounds left, and the furniture (which included an expensive invalid chair), and books would fetch another thirty or so--enough to pay for a second-class passage and leave a few pounds in her pocket.

At the worst it would be a change, and she could not go through more there than she did here, so that very night she sat down and wrote to her clergyman cousin..