"How do you happen to be here?" asked Stephen sharply.
"I wanted to earn my living."
"Had your father no property?"
"I'm not of age."
"Why didn't you go on to college?"
"My grandfather and my brother thought I had enough education, and the farm was run down and my brother thought the income should go to improving it."
"Did they drive you away?"
"Oh, no! I came of my free will. They thought what they did was right. It happened to suit Matthew's plans for the farm, but he would have done right even if it had inconvenienced him."
"Did you expect to earn enough to go to college in a housemaid's position?"
"No; but I earned something and I had a little. Then Miss MacVane encouraged me—she had nothing, and yet she went to college."