Love and Mr. Lewisham

"The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love - indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third - and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs."