PART FOUR - LIFE AT MOOR HOUSE
CHAPTER TWENTY
Getting to Know the Rivers Family

I stayed one month at Moor House. In that time, I came to love the little house, and the wild, beautiful fields around it, just like Diana and Mary did. We read books together and talked about them. Diana began to teach me the German language, and I helped Mary with her drawing. [-----1-----], so we spent the days and nights very happily together.
But St. John hardly ever spent time with us. He was usually visiting poor and sick people in a little village called Morton, near to our house. Even if the rain fell and the wind blew, he always went there. I did not think St. John was a happy person. Often, [-----2-----].

I knew that Diana and Mary were planning to leave Moor House soon, to work as governesses. St. John and Hannah the old lady would go back to the church man's house in Morton. I knew my time at Moor House was almost over. I asked St. John if he had found any work for me.

"Yes," he said, "but it is a job with little money, so you may not want it. I would like to open a girls' school in the town of Morton. I have a building for the school, and there is a small house for the teacher to live in. A lady named Miss Oliver has kindly paid for the house's furniture. Will you come to Morton, and teach at the school? [-----3-----]. But you would receive thirty pounds a year, and no more."

Vocabulary Focus
even if... 即使……，引导让步状语从句。if也可以用though来代替。