[What Diantha Did by Charlotte Perkins Gilman]@TWC D-Link book
What Diantha Did

CHAPTER V
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I'm used to girls being in all the time, excepting their day out.

You see I can't leave baby, nor always take him--and it interferes with my freedom afternoons." "Well--can't you arrange with her somehow ?" "See if you can.

She says she will only give ten hours of time for a dollar and a half a day--tisn't but fifteen cents an hour--I have to pay a woman twenty that comes in.

And if she is to give up her chance of sunlight and fresh air she wants me to pay her extra--by the hour.

Or she says, if I prefer, she would take four hours every other day--and so be at home half the time.


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