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`` Very well , you shall learn then . I have been making inquiries , and find that there is a place in Regent Street , where for a moderate premium they do really succeed in teaching girls such things in a short time . I shall take you there to-morrow , and make all arrangements . '' Very soon after this conversation Fan commenced her new work of learning dressmaking , going every morning by omnibus to Regent Street , lunching where she worked , and returning to Dawson Place at four o'clock . After the preliminary difficulties , or rather strangeness inseparable from a new occupation , had been got over , she began to find her work very agreeable . It was maintained by the teachers in the establishment she was in that by means of their system even a stupid girl could be taught the mystery of dressmaking in a little while . And Fan was not stupid , although she had an extremely modest opinion of her own abilities , and was not regarded by others as remarkably intelligent ; but she was diligent and painstaking , and above everything anxious to please her mistress , who had paid extra money to ensure pains being taken with her .