I should know that I ought to do what there was no one else to do, and make the best of it.

But----' 'Make the best of it!' he interrupted indignantly.

'What an expression to use! It would not only be your duty, dear, but your privilege!' 'Wait a moment, Edmund.

If you were a shopman earning fifteen shillings a week, and working from early morning to late at night, should you think it not Only your duty but your privilege ?' He made a wrathful gesture.
'What comparison is there?
I should be earning a hard livelihood by slaving for other people.

But a married woman who works in her own home, for her husband's children--' 'Work is work, and when a woman is overburdened with it she must find it difficult not to weary of home and husband and children all together.