If this kind of thing is repeated, we had better send her back to the country.' 'To shop work again ?' 'It might be better.' 'Oh, I don't like the thought of that.' Rhoda had one of her fits of wrathful eloquence.
'Now could one have a better instance than this Madden family of the crime that middle-class parents commit when they allow their girls to go without rational training?
Of course I know that Monica was only a little child when they were left orphans; but her sisters had already grown up into uselessness, and their example has been harmful to her all along.

Her guardians dealt with her absurdly; they made her half a lady and half a shop-girl.

I don't think she'll ever be good for much.
And the elder ones will go on just keeping themselves alive; you can see that.

They'll never start the school that there's so much talk of.
That poor, helpless, foolish Virginia, alone there in her miserable lodging! How can we hope that any one will take her as a companion?
And yet they are capitalists; eight hundred pounds between them.

Think what capable women might do with eight hundred pounds.' 'I am really afraid to urge them to meddle with the investments.' 'Of course; so am I.One is afraid to do or propose anything.