The  situations  open  to  the  penitent,  therefore,  are  those
which  are  worst  paid.  When  she  gains  a  character
she  may  obtain  more  remunerative  occupation  else-
where. She  recognises  that  on  account  of  her  bad
reputation  she  has  to  do  more  work  for  less  money,
but  she  does  not  so  readily  admit  that  it  is  just  that
it  should  be  so.  She  thinks  that  it  is  one  thing  for  an
ordinary  person  to  take  advantage  of  her  needs  and
to  underpay  her,  while  it  is  quite  another  thing  for
a  Christian  institution  to  keep  her  workmg  for  in-
sufficient wages.  In  the  home  she  has  as  hard  work
and  almost  as  little  liberty  as  she  would  have  were  she
m  prison.  Her  associates  are  girls  like  herself,  with
whom  she  can  converse  on  a  basis  of  equality  and
discourse  on  life  from  a  similar  standpoint.  On  the
other  hand,  she  is  preached  to,  patronised  b}^  visitors,
entertained  in  a  very  proper  manner,  and  taught  in
a  thousand  indirect  ways  that  she  is  different  from
them.  If  her  associates  do  not  help  her  to  forget  her
past,  neither  do  her  teachers.  They  want  to  be  kind,
and  try  to  be  considerate  ;  the  effort  is  obvious.
In  a  gentle  way  they  may  tell  the  girls  what  they  think
of  them  and  how  much  need  there  is  for  their  reforma-
tion, and  they  do  not  seem  to  see  that  they  would  come
more  closely  in  contact  with  those  they  seek  to  help  if
they  would  assume  the  things  they  express  by  word  and
attitude,  and  try  to  draw  the  girls  out.  The  defect  in
the  teacher  is  too  often  a  habit  of  tallying  at  his  pupils.
The  girls  are  there  to  learn  ;  the  visitors  to  teach.
