"If, dear Primrose, you want to earn your living well--and nothing
makes a woman braver and better than being able to support
herself--you must be educated to take up some one profession in an
efficient manner. Money must be spent for this purpose, and you must
not be too proud to accept money from those who really love you. I
have been to see Mrs. Ellsworthy, and she and I had a long, long talk
about you girls. She is full of kindness, and she really and truly
loves you. It would be worse than folly, it would be wicked, to throw
such friendship away. Mrs. Ellsworthy tells me that she has been
consulting your old friend Mr. Danesfield about you. Both he and Mrs.
Ellsworthy are arranging plans which they trust you will all listen to
with patience. These plans shall be fully disclosed to you on your
return to town, but I may as well mention here that it will be
absolutely necessary that you should give up your present lives, and
should enter seriously on the great work of education. Money must be
spent for this object; but when you are able to earn well, bye-and-bye
it will be in your power to repay the money to the kind friends whose
happiness it is now to lend it to you.
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