"You're only saying that because my book is about you," she teased lightly, seeming happier than she had been in a long time. "But in further news, I am to get my own home and I am to start earning my keep in doing so... I am to use my schooling to tutor children of the upper crust in town. I think that is a reasonable thing for my father to ask for instead of cutting me off. My mother thinks I am a hoyden and writing is bad. But maybe she will come around like you said. I go to find a house soon," she said. "A small one, I don't need a big house to myself."