She had told him that she had been practically an orphan since infancy; that till she was fourteen years of age, she had been brought up in a convent; that at fourteen she went to live in the family of her mother's cousin; that she had been educated at Smith College, taking her bachelor's degree there; that she had found the bread of dependence exceedingly hard to eat, and, in defiance of her relatives' wishes, had taken her training as a nurse; and finally, that she had come to the philippines to put as great a distance as possible between herself and them, to whom her career was a source of humiliation.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Three years later she wrote again: Charlotte has finished her training and is going to the philippines.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
"Oh, the army's sore on the philippines," remarked Collingwood.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee