Our Hearts Were Heavy In Us That Day, While We Waited Apprehensively For The Appearance Of The Man Who Would Exercise Such A Tremendous Power Over Us And Would Stand Between Us And Our Parents, Especially Our Mother, Who Had Ever Been Our Shield And Refuge From All Pains And Troubles.

Up till now they had acted on the principle that children were best left to themselves, that the more liberty they had the better it was for them.

Now it almost looked as if they were turning against us; but we knew that it could not be so - we knew that every slightest pain or grief that touched us was felt more keenly by our mother than by ourselves, and we were compelled to believe her when she told us that she, too, lamented the restraint that would be put upon us, but knew that it would be for our ultimate good.

And on that very afternoon the feared man arrived, Mr. Trigg by name, an Englishman, a short, stoutish, almost fat little man, with grey hair, clean-shaved sunburnt face, a crooked nose which had been broken or was born so, clever mobile mouth, and blue-grey eyes with a humorous twinkle in them and crow's-feet at the corners. Only to us youngsters, as we soon discovered, that humorous face and the twinkling eyes were capable of a terrible sternness. He was loved, I think, by adults generally, and regarded with feelings of an opposite nature by children.

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