And at the end of all this was a far-off hope, a dim vision of possibilities, a vague trust that her daughter might perchance prove for her a means of returning to that world of "respectability" from which she was at present so hopelessly shut out.
She would keep making efforts to get into an honest livelihood as often as an occasion presented itself; and Ida should always live with "respectable" people, cost what it might.
The last resolution was only adhered to for a few months.

Lotty could not do without her little one, and eventually brought it back to her own home.

It is not an infrequent thing to find little children living in disorderly houses.

In the profession Lotty had chosen there are, as in all professions, grades and differences.

She was by no means a vicious girl, she had no love of riot for its own sake; she would greatly have preferred a decent mode of life, had it seemed practicable.