Case 10

her work - & I thought his [year] training would qualify her to take a situation at all earlier [?] usual. (she was 13 in February) & to make her independent.

However we discovered on Saturday that she had stolen 3/- from my mothers' purse. She had spent a great deal in sweets & cakes at a shop in the village & the shop woman very properly went to Mrs. S. with whom she is boarded to speak about it & see if it was right. The child then after much persuasion confessed to the theft of the 3/- & to having taken some ribbons silk handkerchiefs &c from my mothers drawer. These she had shown Mrs. S. saying they had been given her by us. Today I have had