But the natural genius she had for conducting affairs there was of no real use to her here.

Her watch, for example, was a constant source of surprise to her, and at the age of sixty-five she was still amazed at the ascendancy which rules and reasons exerted over the lives of other people.

She had never learnt her lesson, and had constantly to be punished for her ignorance.

But as that ignorance was combined with a fine natural insight which saw deep whenever it saw at all, it was not possible to write Mrs.Hilbery off among the dunces; on the contrary, she had a way of seeming the wisest person in the room.

But, on the whole, she found it very necessary to seek support in her daughter.
Katharine, thus, was a member of a very great profession which has, as yet, no title and very little recognition, although the labor of mill and factory is, perhaps, no more severe and the results of less benefit to the world.