Work girls aren't looked after the way you are, and they don't always know how to look after themselves.
 Edith Wharton, House of Mirth (1905). copy citation

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Author Edith Wharton
Source House of Mirth
Topic work girl
Date 1905
Language English
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“I'd known a gentleman where I was employed—I don't know as you remember I did type-writing in a big importing firm—and—well—I thought we were to be married: he'd gone steady with me six months and given me his mother's wedding ring. But I presume he was too stylish for me—he travelled for the firm, and had seen a great deal of society. Work girls aren't looked after the way you are, and they don't always know how to look after themselves. I didn't ... and it pretty near killed me when he went away and left off writing ... "It was then I came down sick—I thought it was the end of everything. I guess it would have been if you hadn't sent me off.” source