I've never had such a crushing impression of the miserable dependence of girls--of women.

This was an extreme case.

But a young man--any man--could have gone to break stones on the roads or something of that kind--or enlisted--or--" It was very true.

Women can't go forth on the high roads and by-ways to pick up a living even when dignity, independence, or existence itself are at stake.

But what made me interrupt Mrs.Fyne's tirade was my profound surprise at the fact of that respectable citizen being so willing to keep in his home the poor girl for whom it seemed there was no place in the world.