"Only in a very desultory sort of way. But now it is all different. Life has become so much bigger."
"Will you tell me about it? I should like to hear about it."
"Oh, it would only bore you. I shall just teach them the simplest things. How to darn clothes, how to cook, and perhaps a little singing. It isn't as though I were a learned person."
"How kind of you."
"It isn't kind at all."
"You will be taking girls of from thirteen to sixteen?"
"Yes. I've got no flair for very little children. Besides, there is nothing which I could teach them. I want to get hold of them at an age when I can really be of use to them."
She drummed a little with one foot.
"I wish that you would let me help you," he continued.
"Thank you very much. That is very kind of you. But I must do this quite by myself."