The second she could not help quite; but if she had had anything to do, and had done it well, it would have been very difficult for any man to behave badly to her.

And for this third cause of her illness, if she had had anything to do that was worth doing, she might have borne his bad behaviour so that even that would not have made her ill.

It is not always easy, I confess, to find something to do that is worth doing, but the most difficult things are constantly being done, and she might have found something if she had tried.

Her fault lay in this, that she had not tried.

But, to be sure, her father and mother were to blame that they had never set her going.