Anne followed Lottie's directions. Her eyes quickly noped over the family Bible - she felt slightly guilty - and landed on one of the Cleveland Weekly instead. Having found the weekly short story, she followed Mrs. Blacke out to the back and sat down in the door opening.

She began to read. It was a serial story about four siblings who had been brought up comfortably, but had fallen on hard times after their parents died and a great debt was revealed and now lived in a little cottage on the moors. The eldest, Paul, had taken a job as a farmhand and found the manual labour hard but was beginning to appreciate the simplicity of his new life. Last week's story had focused on Lisa, the second, who had been forced to take up work as a scullery maid in a nearby mansion had felt jealous of the family she was serving. She had ended up stealing a silver hairbrush, but rather than handing her over to the police, the Mistress had forgiven her when Lisa had confessed what she had done and seen the evil of her ways. Now Lisa served the family happily and her hard work had gotten her promoted to kitchen maid. This week focused on James, the third child, who was ten and had to go to a new rural school, where he knew no one. As James looked around his classroom, he felt that it was really quite a disgrace that he had to learn with these backward poor people who had no use for education anyway.

"How awful!" Anne exclaimed. "What a wicked boy, James is! He should 'ave been humbled by his circumstances."