12/25 It's the same with Maggie Lee." "Who is that ?" "One of the boarders; young lady that works in the factry." "She works in a factory ?" "Yes. Shoe factory." "In a shoe factory; and you call her a young lady ?" "Why, she's only twenty-two; what should you call her ?" "I wasn't thinking of her age, I was thinking of the title. The fact is, I came away from England to get away from artificial forms--for artificial forms suit artificial people only--and here you've got them too. I hoped you had only men and women; everybody equal; no differences in rank." The girl stopped with a pillow in her teeth and the case spread open below it, contemplating him from under her brows with a slightly puzzled expression. |