Are you so blind as to imagine that any good will ever come of such a person?
If you wish to save her from the streets, do so by all means.
But to put her among your chosen pupils is to threaten your whole undertaking.

Let it once become known--and it _would_ become known--that a girl of that character came here, and your usefulness is at an end.

In a year's time you will have to choose between giving up the school altogether and making it a refuge for outcasts.' Miss Barfoot was silent.

She tapped with her fingers on the table.
'Personal feeling is misleading you,' Rhoda pursued.

'Miss Royston had a certain cleverness, I grant; but do you think I didn't know that she would never become what you hoped?
All her spare time was given to novel-reading.