"Really, I can't have you going to the door in that thing. You don't do credit to my house; you must get yourself a new dress at once."
Esther muttered that she had no money to buy one.
"Then I don't know what you do with your money."
"What I do with my wages is my affair; I've plenty of use for my money."
"I cannot allow any servant of mine to speak to me like that."
Esther did not answer, and Mrs. Bingley continued—
"It is my duty to know what you do with your money, and to see that you do not spend it in any wrong way. I am responsible for your moral welfare."
"Then, ma'am, I think I had better leave you."
"Leave me, because I don't wish you to spend your money wrongfully, because I know the temptations that a young girl's life is beset with?"
"There ain't much chance of temptation for them who work seventeen hours a day."