Dearest one,
I have had the most extraordinary day! I will try to tell you all, but I am not really allowed to have this candle, and I am afraid I will be caught. Old Mrs. Clabbard is very stingy. I was tempted to buy some candles today when I went into Bath, but she would claim I stole them from the household stores and make me turn them over, I am sure of it. Horrible woman.
I went into Bath to see if any of the shops might buy my fine needlework. I have several pairs of slippers that I have embroidered over the past year or two, and out of boredom I have developed quite an elaborate pattern of entwined flowers and vines that I repeat in several colors. I have an extraordinary eye for color, if I may say so myself.
It is not so much that my work is complicated as that most girls would
