Perhaps the heat was enervating, but was that sufficient reason for embarrassing one's hostess?
Perhaps it did make her think of hard things, but was that any reason for failing in the things that made all this possible?
It was not appreciative, it was not kind, it did not show the right spirit, Katie told herself as she listened, with what she was pleased to consider both atoning and rebuking graciousness, to the plans for Miss Osborne's garden party.
"It is for the working girls, especially the lower class of working girls, who are in the factories.

For instance, the candy factory girls.

I am especially interested in that as father owns the candy factory--it is a pet side issue of his.

You can see it from here, across the river there on the little neck of land.

You see?
The girls are just beginning to come from work now." The three girls looked across the river, where groups of other girls were quitting a large building.