"But I particularly want to interest you in this one.

It's better that girls should work in a mill in the country than go to swell the population of slums; I grant you that.

But how much better still for them to work in private houses, following their natural calling, busy with the duties of domestic life.

They're getting to hate that as much as their menfolk hate agricultural labour; and what could be a worse symptom or a greater danger ?" "Pray," cried Lady Ogram, in her grating voice, "how would a servants' school have helped the village ?" "Not so quickly, perhaps, but in time.

With your means and influence, Lady Ogram, you might have started an institution which would be the model of its kind for all England.