"They should not come out of your pocket-money." "Oh, but I like them to do so.

I wish I had a home of my own!--as I shall have when papa returns to Europe.

I should invite her to me for the holidays, and give her nice dinners always, and buy her some nice clothes, and send her back with her poor old heart happy." "Invite whom ?" "Fraulein Mueller.

Her father was a gentleman of good position, and he somehow lost his inheritance.

When he died she found it out--there was not a shilling for her, instead of a fortune, as she had always thought.
She was over forty then, and she had to come to England and begin teaching for a living.