No; to put the truth in a few words, I am not chiefly anxious that you should _earn money_, but that women in general shall become _rational and responsible human beings_.
'Follow me carefully.

A governess, a nurse, may be the most admirable of women.

I will dissuade no one from following those careers who is distinctly fitted for them.

But these are only a few out of the vast number of girls who must, if they are not to be despicable persons, somehow find serious work.

Because I myself have had an education in clerkship, and have most capacity for such employment, I look about for girls of like mind, and do my best to prepare them for work in offices.
And (here I must become emphatic once more) I am _glad_ to have entered on this course.