She has that intuitive order of mind which is wonderful enough, though not, after all, so rare in a girl; but in addition she has the logical, which, according to my experience, is almost unknown in a woman.

She ought to have an education." "But," said Risley, "what is the use of educating that unfortunate child ?" "What do you mean ?" "What I say.

What is the use?
There she is in her sphere of life, the daughter of a factory operative, in all probability in after-years to be the wife of one and the mother of others.

Nothing but a rich marriage can save her, and that she is not likely to make.

Milk-maids are more likely to make rich marriages than factory girls; there is a certain savor of romance about milk, and the dewy meadows, and the breath of kine, but a shoe factory is brutally realistic and illusionary.