It is not the washing that troubles her; it is her husband who beats her, and her boy who worries her.

If you and I take our work from her, she will have that much less money to depend upon, and will suffer in consequence.
"She is a hard-working and capable woman, and makes a fair living.

I would not advise you to give her money, for her husband would find it out, and take it from her.

It is sympathy that she wants.

If you could visit her occasionally, and show that you are interested in her, by talking or reading to her poor foolish boy or showing him a picture-book, you have no idea how grateful she would be to you, and how it would cheer her on her dreary way." "I will go to see her to-morrow," said Mrs.Montague.