This lady may be an exception; but I picture her as having spent a lifetime of uncongenial toil, longing miserably for the day when poor Mr.Micklethwaite was able to offer her a home.
That's the ordinary teacher-woman, and we must abolish her altogether.' 'How are you to do that ?' inquired Everard suavely.

'The average man labours that he may be able to marry, and the average woman certainly has the same end in view.

Are female teachers to be vowed to celibacy ?' 'Nothing of the kind.

But girls are to be brought up to a calling in life, just as men are.

It's because they have no calling that, when need comes, they all offer themselves as teachers.