That is very good, for the only comfortable way for a woman to make her living is to marry one--a man is the only perfectly satisfactory means of livelihood.

I tell this to my daughter, who wishes to go on the stage.

If you are looking for pleasure, that is different, but when you talk of a living--well, there is but one way to insure it, and that is to marry a man who is able to provide it--either as allowance or as alimony.

The best that a woman can do gives her only bread and meat--an existence, not a living.

Only a man can provide one with the essential things--with clothes and jewels and carriages and trips to Europe.