32/42 I thought you understood this. What would become of the encouragement I am able to offer our girls ?' 'Encouragement to refuse marriage ?' 'To scorn the old idea that a woman's life is wasted if she does not marry. My work is to help those women who, by sheer necessity, must live alone--woman whom vulgar opinion ridicules. How can I help them so effectually as by living among them, one of them, and showing that my life is anything but weariness and lamentation? Your cousin is doing the same work admirably. |