Diana and Mary were soon to leave Moor House, and return to the far different life and scene which awaited them, as governesses in a large, fashionable, south-of-England city, where each held a situation in families by whose wealthy and haughty members they were regarded only as humble dependants, and who neither knew nor sought out their innate excellences, and appreciated only their acquired accomplishments as they appreciated the skill of their cook or the taste of their waiting-woman.
Diana y Mary iban a dejar en breve Moor House para dirigirse a la gran ciudad meridional en que ejercían como institutrices en casas de acaudaladas familias que no reparaban en ellas sino para considerarlas humildes servidoras, sin apreciar lo que valían más de lo que pudieran apreciar la habilidad de su cocinera o la disposición de sus criadas.