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Oh, my reputation never suffered from it. It was more my parents fretting and trying to frighten me by saying I'd end up looking after my brother's children and various elderly relatives and never doing anything worthwhile. But they are as accepting as they will ever be, though. it helps that I am older.
I do not agree with the 'modern' way of doing things at all, I'm afraid. That is what does harm to a reputation, being very free with one's affections, and having children without being married. I don't see that as any sort of progress.
Mr Samara, if that is true you would have made quite an exceptional parent! Had I done it at home I'm sure my mother would have been very tolerant of it all. She didn't like to see anything I did wrong as my fault, really. Unfortunately for me, it happened at school, and they don't make any allowances for good intentions. But now I have to laugh at it, too - I was so confident that other girls might not be able to cope with dangerous magic, but I could!