He will pay her tuition and also give her a generous monthly allowance.
He has spoken to her former teachers and thinks she has potential to become an excellent writer. One day, after the asylum's trustees have made their monthly visit, Judy is informed by the asylum's dour matron that one of the trustees has offered to pay her way through college.
At the age of 15, she has finished her education and is at loose ends, still working in the dormitories at the institution where she was brought up. Jerusha's unusual first name was selected by the matron off a gravestone (she hates it and uses "Judy" instead), while her surname was selected out of the phone book. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes. The main character Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage.
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