Kate gets a Dressing-Down

Kate Nickleby has been subjected to a barrage of unwarranted abuse and criticism by a customer in the dress shop where she works. It is the first time she has been treated snobbishly, and she is bewildered by the sense of worthlessness, but as Dickens says, the shame lies not with the abused, but with the abuser.

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