She too wrote a private letter to a London friend, and arrived at Woodbine Cottage primed with what she considered valuable information.

"Now, my dears, you must go to Shepherd's Bush--that is the place, and the only place where you can live within your means.

My friend Constantia Warren has rooms there, and she says--I have written to her, my loves--she says if you will let her accompany you in your search she may be able to secure you a clean, respectable bedroom in a fairly good locality.

Constantia is an excellent woman; she is fifty, and plain in her tastes, and has no nonsense about her.

She has promised me, for my sake, to accompany you to church in the evenings, and to see that you wear your veils down when you go out, and that you are back in your bedroom--you can't afford a sitting-room, so don't think of it--that you are back in your bedroom by five o'clock in the evening, as all girls who have any idea of what is correct and proper are of course in by that hour in London.