It was necessary, dear Primrose, to take it, and I acted as I am sure you would think right in the matter.

Poppy had to be paid her wages.
"Now, dear Primrose, I want to talk with you very seriously on another matter.

You must own, dear, that though you have tried bravely you have not yet, any of you, succeeded in earning your living.

It is almost a year since you began to try, and you have made, I fear, but small headway.

You, Primrose, have done best, and have made fewer mistakes than your sisters, but even you would not care to spend all your life in continual reading to Mrs.Mortlock.Jasmine can only earn a precarious and uncertain living by dressing dinner-tables.