Young girls are not a bit like what they used to be in my time.

No steadiness, no diligence, no duty to their parents.

Gadding about is all they think of, and light-headed chatter, and saucy ribbons." "May be so with some of them.

But I never see none of that in Mary." "Mary is a good girl, and well brought up," her mother could not help admitting, "and fond of her home, and industrious.

But for all that, she must be looked after sharply.