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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: for instance, to take some maiden who knows naught of carding wool and
to make her proficient in the art, doubling her usefulness; or to
receive another quite ignorant of housekeeping or of service, and to
render her skilful, loyal, serviceable, till she is worth her weight
in gold; or again, when occasion serves, you have it in your power to
requite by kindness the well-behaved whose presence is a blessing to
your house; or maybe to chasten the bad character, should such an one
appear. But the greatest joy of all will be to prove yourself my
better; to make me your faithful follower; knowing no dread lest as
the years advance you should decline in honour in your household, but
rather trusting that, though your hair turn gray, yet, in proportion
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