"What do you mean by being 'helped up'?" asked Mr. Morley.
"I do not mean helped out of his trade, but helped to make the best of it, and of the intellect that finds its development in that way."
"Very good. But yet I don't see how you apply your supposition."
"For an instance of application, then: How many respectable people know or care a jot about their servants, except as creatures necessary to their comfort?"
"Well, Miss Clare," said Judy, addressing her for the first time, "if you had had the half to do with servants I have had, you would alter your opinion of them."
"I have expressed no opinion," returned Miss Clare. "I have only said that masters and mistresses know and care next to nothing about them."
"They are a very ungrateful class, do what you will for them."
"I am afraid they are at present growing more and more corrupt as a class," rejoined Miss Clare; "but gratitude is a high virtue, therefore in any case I don't see how you could look for much of it from the common sort of them. And yet while some mistresses do not get so much of it as they deserve, I fear most mistresses expect far more of it than they have any right to."
"You can't get them to speak the truth."
"That I am afraid is a fact."