We think we can do a great deal through that." "Oh yes, help them get higher wages, I suppose ?" Katie asked innocently.
"N--o; that would scarcely be possible.

But help them to get on better with what they have.

Help them learn to manage better." Again Ann laughed, not only recklessly but rudely.

"That is surely a splendid thing," she said, and the voice which said it was high-pitched and unsteady, "helping a girl to 'manage better' on fifty cents a day!" "You do not approve of these things ?" Miss Osborne asked coldly.
And with all the heat Katie felt herself growing suddenly cold as she heard Ann replying: "Oh, if they help you--pass the time, I don't suppose they do any harm." "You see," Katie hastened, "Miss Forrest and I were once associated with one of those things which wasn't very well conducted.

I fear it--prejudiced us." "Evidently," was Miss Osborne's reply.
"Though to be sure," Kate further propitiated, resentment at having to do so growing with the propitiation, "that is very narrow of us.