Emily's POV
By this, she was trying to say that her stepdaughter would never be anything in life especially as she had no one, they had refused to make her life standard, she believed that the young girl would therefore not get anything out of life.
It's quite nice that she didn't mind her step mom nor let these discouragements weaken her nor cool the fire in her heart. She went to the city, did manual jobs, worked as a domestic maid among many other things. This young lady, my favorite character, suffered a lot as her stepmom repeatedly mocked her on the phone for disobeying her and leaving home....