We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurses' knees.

We will be equals again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep!" Waldo looked in wonder at the little quivering face; it was a glimpse into a world of passion and feeling wholly new to him.
"Mark you," she said, "we have always this advantage over you--we can at any time step into ease and competence, where you must labour patiently for it.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say: "Come, be my wife!" With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain.

There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street.

They both earn their bread in one way.