All the slavery lay in the shop, all the freedom in the personal service.

But she strove hard to suppress anxiety, for she saw that, of all poverty-stricken contradictions, a Christian with little faith is the worst.
The chief attraction to her, however, was simply Hesper herself.

She had fallen in love with her--I hardly know how otherwise to describe the current with which her being set toward her.

Few hearts are capable of loving as she loved.

It was not merely that she saw in Hesper a grand creature, and lovely to look upon, or that one so much her superior in position showed such a liking for herself; she saw in her one she could help, one at least who sorely needed help, for she seemed to know nothing of what made life worth having--one who had done, and must yet be capable of doing, things degrading to the humanity of womanhood.