han I have
done."

"But I could get nothing to do but to take a governess's situation; and
wonderfully lucky I was to get it. Mary Forrester is a much better
governess for Mr. Phillips's family than I was. Elsie could only
maintain herself as a milliner or as a lady's maid; and yet Elsie,
placed as a clerk or bookkeeper in a bank or merchant's office, would
have filled the situation as satisfactorily as half the young men I
know."

"Then you have not quite given up your notions of woman's rights?" said
Mr. Dempster. "For my part, I think the best right a woman has is the
right to a husband."

"That is a right she cannot assert for herself," said Jane, smiling.
"One would think, to hear people talk on this subject, that the
entreaties for work and independence come from those who in their youth
disdained faithful lovers, and perversely and unnaturally refused to
love, honour, and obey. I think, on the contrary, that the women of our
century are only too easily won, and cannot be charged with any
unnecessary cruelty to lovers. I do not think that you increase the
number of happy marriages or lessen the number of mercenary unions by
making the task for a single woman to maintain herself honestly and
usefully such very uphill work."

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