She had opened her house to the immigrants who were pouring into Neufch tel; she protected them, helped them, guided them; she wrote elegant and disillusioned works that Huber, a poor German philosopher, translated; she lavished advice on a circle of young women and taught Locke to her favorite one, Henriette; she loved to play the role of divine protection for the peasants of the area; avoiding Neufch tel society more and more carefully, she preciously limited her life; she 'sought only to create routine, and to endure it.