No sapper works harder to make his trench than most young women do to make stable places for themselves in strange communities.
The gnawing loneliness of the girl who has left home to make her way is one of the most fruitful causes of the questionable relations which well-born girls form more often than society realizes.

The girl seizes eagerly every chance for companionship or pleasure.

Her keen need of it makes her overappreciative and undercritical.

Moreover, she has the confidence of ignorance.

Most American girls are brought up as if wrongdoing were impossible to them.