Talk:Sweet Innocent Hypatia/@comment-5607198-20161120032810/@comment-16533050-20170209173847

I guess it does vary from person to person.

I took it immediately to mean she was poor, a mudlark, or abused when she was younger... All of which fit the text more appropriately. Especially as now, in her current position she is the opposite of all those things.

I took as she remade herself and she is now the abuser, the one with power, and the callous individual taking pleasure from tormenting others and making the rich suffer.

I really can't seem to read it any other way, even after having been told.