When engaging Miss
Griggs, I told her she must be patient, firm and, above all,
strong-minded. She replied that she made a professional
specialty of these qualities, one of her present pupils being a
young lady of the Alhambra ballet who desires the particular
shade of cultivation that will match a new brougham. She teaches
Carlotta to spell, to hold a knife and fork, and corrects such
erroneous opinions as that the sky is an inverted bowl over a
nice flat earth, and that the sun, moon, and stars are a sort of
electric light installation, put into the cosmos to illuminate
Alexandretta and the Regent's Park. Her religious instruction I
myself shall attend to, when she is sufficiently advanced to
understand my teaching. At present she is a Mohammedan, if she
is anything, and believes firmly in Allah. I consider that a
working Theism is quite enough for a young woman in her position
to go on with. In the afternoon she walks out with Antoinette.
Once she stole forth by herself, enjoyed herself hugely for a
short time, got lost, and was brought back thoroughly frightened
by a policeman.
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