she did some things in her letters, but not enough. she told me she liked the schoolwork, and i was pleased. but she did not tell me about the food, or the cold, or the unkind teachers. Charlotte told me those things, much later. i know maria did not tell me that the food was often burnt and uneatable, or that they could not sleep because the beds were too cold. she did not tell me that the poor hungry children had to wash ice in the morning. and walk through wet snow to sit for two hours with ice feet in a cold church on Sundays. she did not tell me that many of the children at the school were ill