Chapter 12

She had had one experience already, from which she had learned the undesirability of invoking the processes of the law against the rich and socially elect unless quite sure of one’s ground; but she had not yet discovered that the law is no respecter of persons, and it did not occur to her that in its eyes she and the man she now accused were equally entitled to its aid and protection. From her point of view, this man was only her servant, a dependent. She could no longer, it was true, order him to be lashed or bast…