My walk home today included an enquiry from a pair of passing bicyclists that i did my best to best to answer, but unfortunately i have endured a tiring day and my mind was quite elsewhere as i hurried toward the peace of home, i fear i did not answer well. It is always after such unsatisfactory encounters i hope for some further contact from the other party that might facilitate a more rounded conversation. I do my best to serve the unexpressed expectation for both a concise and complete answer but the nature of the work is so varied and can be read in many different ways and i am not very able at guessing the aspect that interests the enquirer most. It would take a conversation in a more suitable location than the public street in the midst of a journey to give due credit and share.
From our brief exchange it seems it is now the time to elaborate on this forum a little of my situation, which in 1904 would be understood without need of explanation, but i believe the work carries with it a responsibility to share a little of the history. It is not without wishing that i should have more clothes, i know of no woman who feels otherwise, but once other necessities are accounted for i have only a small dress allowance, though it is all from my own purse. Independence comes not without cost and the monetary cost places on me some undesirable limitations. I make an effort to dress as well as i can on what i can afford.
My independence also has a cost of time such that now as the nights draw in and i return home in the dark i must trim lamp wick by candlelight unable to do so in the morning for always being in a rush and there is of course no one else to perform this simple duty.
