Susannah Maude The girls at The Woodlands, while they contributed to various charities, had one special and particular object of interest.

For several years they had supported a little girl at an orphanage.

She was called their orphan, and twice a year they received accounts of her progress.

They sent her a Christmas present annually, and her neat little letter of thanks was handed round for everybody to read.

Poor Susannah Maude was the daughter of very disreputable parents; she had been rescued from a travelling caravan at the age of ten, and the authorities at the Alexandra Home had done their best to obliterate her past life from her memory.