8/40 The prospect before her was ideal, too good, of course, to be realised. We must devise some other future for her.' 'You think of taking her definitively from her former sphere ?' 'There is no choice. She can't go and work for her living in the old way; I foresee too well what the end of _that_ would be. She must either be raised or fall into the black gulfs--so beautifully is our society constructed. For the present she has to recover her health; the doctor tells me her constitution is very delicate. |