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successful.”
    “It’ll be a miracle if you are,” Mrs. Hill said, “but don’t say I haven’t warned you.”
    “If I crawl back, you must not laugh at me!”
    “I certainly won’t do that. I’d give you a crown if I had one, but my grateful thanks will cost nothing. I only swear I’ll find you another job if you give up on this one.”
    “Thank you very much,” Eleta sighed, “and I am very very grateful.”
    “When can you go there?” Mrs. Hill asked her.
    “What would suit me best is to leave late tonight. It may perhaps be rather inconvenient, but I am obliged, for reasons I don’t wish to discuss, to leave the place where I am staying at the moment.”
    “That’ll be difficult,” Mrs. Hill said after thinking it over. “What you could do, if you could manage it, is to go early tomorrow morning. It’ll give me a chance to inform his Lordship’s secretary that he must provide you with a proper conveyance.”
    Eleta had not thought of this, but she could see it was sensible.
    “Very well,” she said, “I will be here at six o’clock tomorrow morning. And if I then have to wait for the conveyance, perhaps you would be kind enough to have someone let me in.”
    “It seems to me,” Mrs. Hill remarked in a different tone of voice, “that you are escaping from somewhere.”
    “You are very clever,” Eleta replied. “The people I am with now don’t wish to lose me, but I have to leave them for a number of reasons. I therefore want to get away without a scene, either late tonight or very early tomorrow morning, whichever you think the most convenient.”
    “Well, I tell you what I’ll do. Neither of us want to get up as early as six o’clock. So if I give you a spare key to the door, you can sit there until the carriage arrives.”
    “That is very kind,” Eleta said. I promise not to be a nuisance and I will lock the door when I leave and push the key through the letterbox.”
    “That seems safe to me, but you haven’t asked me yet, Miss Lawson, what wages you’ll be wanting.”
    “No, I forgot about that,” Eleta replied.
    “You won’t get far in life if you don’t see that they pay you properly,” Mrs. Hill said in a rebuking tone. “At the same time you’ve struck lucky where that’s concerned as His Lordship’s very generous. He realises, as we do, it’s not an easy position and in my view it never will be.”
    “That’s putting it mildly,” Gertie added. “If you asks me, I’d want a thousand pounds a day for that child!”
    “Now you are putting Miss Lawson off, Gertie.”
    Eleta laughed,
    “Don’t worry, she is not putting me off. I do rather like difficult problems and surely this is a most difficult one. So I will enjoy trying to do what other people have failed to accomplish.”
    “All I can say is you’re different from most folk,” Mrs. Hill replied somewhat tartly.
    She handed Eleta a card with the name and address of where she had to go and then another card on which was written her monthly salary.
    And that she was entitled to four weeks holiday during the year and one day off a week provided she could find someone in the household to look after Lady Priscilla.
    That, she realised, was the Marquis of Teringford’s daughter and the wages were much larger than anything her mother had ever paid her Governess.
    She knew therefore that, if he was willing to pay so much, the Marquis must be desperate in trying to find a Governess.
    She put the two cards into her handbag and said,
    “Thank you very much for all your kindness and I promise I will do my best for your sake as well as my own in trying to stay where the others have all left.”
    She held out her hand and, as if it was somewhat unusual, Mrs. Hill seemed surprised as she took it.
    “You will not forget to order the carriage and give me the key,” she said.
    “Of course not. Here it is and you won’t forget to put it through the letterbox will you?”
    “I will not forget,” Eleta promised.