28/33 She wants women to have professions; at present they have not much choice to avoid being penniless. Poverty, and the sight of luxury! It seems as if we produced the situation, to create an envious thirst, and cause the misery. Things are improving for them; but we groan at the slowness of it.' Mrs.Marsett now declared a belief, that women were nearly quite as bad as men. 'I don't think I could take up with a profession. |