Let them prove what they can do and be before they ask anything of us, and give us a chance to do the same.

Then we know where we are, and shall not make mistakes to mourn over all our lives.' 'Hear, hear!' cried Alice Heath, who was a girl after Nan's own heart, and had chosen a career, like a brave and sensible young woman.

'Only give us a chance, and have patience till we can do our best.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Let us have equal opportunities, and in a few generations we will see what the judgement is.