ABSTRACT
Miss stuart was a somewhat elderly woman, and not much more than an acquaintance of mine when she first made the proposition which, after some thought, I accepted. A little nephew and niece – I will call them Roger and Katherine – had come to live with her, and to give them companionship she had decided to take a few other children into her house to be educated with them. Declaring (quite unreasonably) that I alone could teach them as she wanted them taught, she begged me to undertake their education, giving me an absolutely free hand to do what I pleased, in the way I pleased; flatteringly certain that she might leave the matter at that!
