[What Diantha Did by Charlotte Perkins Gilman]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Diantha Did CHAPTER XIII 4/21
"She had Family as well as Wealth." "There's young Mrs.Weatherstone, mother--" suggested Dora. "A nobody!" her mother replied.
"She has the Weatherstone money, of course, but no Position; and what little she has she is losing by her low tastes.
She goes about freely with Diantha Bell--her own housekeeper!" "She's not her housekeeper now, mother--" "Well, it's all the same! She _was!_ And a mere general servant before that! And now to think that when Ross is willing to overlook it all and marry her, she won't give it up!" They were all agreed on this point, unless perhaps that the youngest had her inward reservations.
Dora had always liked Diantha better than had the others. Young Mrs.Weatherstone stayed in her big empty house for a while, and as Mrs.Warden said, went about frequently with Diantha Bell.
She liked Mrs.Bell, too--took her for long stimulating rides in her comfortable car, and insisted that first one and then the other of them should have a bit of vacation at her seashore home before the winter's work grew too heavy. With Mrs.Bell she talked much of how Diantha had helped the town. "She has no idea of the psychic effects, Mrs.Bell," said she.
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