The saving figures in her life are poor people she visits, and the clergyman Edward Weston, for whom she feels first respect, then love. In her second position with the Murrays, where her pupils are older, she is more successful, but this is a family for whom social values are more important than moral ones, and she fears the gradual degeneration of the values instilled into her at home. Her efforts to combat the barbarity of the children and the undue partiality of the parents are doomed, and she is dismissed. The familiar fate of the governess, being neither servant nor family member, is well analysed, and Agnes finds herself involved with three generations of the family, eventually finding favour with none of them. She first goes to the Bloomfield family, and takes charge of what seem like infant fiends.
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