But frankly, Miss Colton, I can't see why you should be glad because I have gone to work.

I can't see what difference my working or idling can possibly make to you." "Oh, it doesn't, of course--except on general principles.

I am a dreadful idler myself; but then, I am a woman, and idleness is a woman's right." I thought of Dorinda and of the other housewives of Denboro and how little of that particular "right" they enjoyed; which thought brought again and forcibly to my mind the difference between this girl's life and theirs--and Mother's--and my own.
"A man," continued Miss Colton, sagely, "should not idle.

He should work and work hard--so that the rest of us may be as good for nothing as we please.

That is philosophy, isn't it ?" "Yes." "You were good enough not to say what sort of philosophy.