Therefore I say to you, beware of Madam How.

She will teach you more kindly, patiently, and tenderly than any mother, if you want to learn her trade.

But if, instead of learning her trade, you damage her materials and play with her tools, beware lest she has her own again out of you.
Some people think, again, that Madam How is not only stupid, but ill-tempered and cruel; that she makes earthquakes and storms, and famine and pestilences, in a sort of blind passion, not caring where they go or whom they hurt; quite heedless of who is in the way, if she wants to do anything or go anywhere.

Now, that Madam How can be very terrible there can be no doubt: but there is no doubt also that, if people choose to learn, she will teach them to get out of her way whenever she has business to do which is dangerous to them.

But as for her being cruel and unjust, those may believe it who like.