To the same:—
‘Be sure the rooms will brighten when you have prayed some sunshine into them. It is terrible to have such a lot of servants!
‘Miss Buss gets her girls to help adorn.
‘I am glad we open on St. Matthew’s Day.’
To the same:—
‘August 1888.
‘Miss H. and Miss E. wanted me to advise your going out socially a little. I said I thought there were as yet difficulties, as a Head-mistress cannot choose; that I thought for the first term it might be best to abstain; then you can look round you and judge better. They did not think there were many who would ask you, that those who would were nice, and it would be better for you not to be quite shut up. What do you think of saying you will go out not more than once a week? You have had so active a life; and intercourse with other people, and varied interests are good for school teachers. Also they think for the school it is good. I merely tell you this, I said I could not judge for you.
‘I hope you will not be led by anything I said to speak, if you do not think it is quite best, or indeed to do anything. I cannot judge, and if I could, the responsibility is yours, and I should grieve if I misled you.
‘I am so glad you feel refreshed. It is our general meeting; I shall be glad when it is over.
‘All best wishes, dear child, for you and yours, the children whom God has given you.’