Case 477

on the 15th, & as she is just 16, I suppose [we] cannot prevent it. But with P., the case is different. She only 14, & is about the most promising girl in the Home, & with another year of training she might make a really good & valuable servant & it is with the greatest regret that we should part with her.

But my real reason for writing to you is that we have great doubts as to whether Mrs. is a fit person to be in charge of young girls. We cannot absolutely prove that she is living an immoral life, but for things that their little sister told the girls when she came here last August we cannot help respecting that it is a bad home. Would it be possible for you to ascertain this, through the police, or by any other means, before I let P. go? I suppose that if we knew for certain that the home was an immoral one, the law would support us in refusing to let them go, would it rest? I am very ignorant on the subject, but of course you will know what we may, or may not do. Only it seems a terrible