When she first ran away, she had a great deal of money at her disposal. Months, years even, of careful saving and hiding of much of her money in an empty box tucked under the floorboards in her attic allowed her the freedom of paying for her lodging and food for the first few months. In the beginning, when she started hoarding the money, hoping her husband never caught on to the small sums that seemed to be missing each month from their bank vault, she'd been planning on running with their son.