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As the girl lay still in the dark listening to the tossings of her sisters in their uncomfortable truckle beds and the beating of the rain on the window she tried to think out some solutions to the problems that beset her—the need to escape from paternal tyranny, the desire for education, the vicarious responsibility that she felt for her younger brothers and sisters. She had, in brief, the eternal puzzle of humanity to solve—how to adjust herself so that some semblance of happiness and safety might be obtained under circumstances over which she had no control, that she had done nothing to help create, yet in which, by the mere accident of birth, she was helplessly involved. She looked back on her childhood and saw a series of episodes full of loneliness, pain and humiliation.