I've been trained to be the kind of girl that doesn't get on to-day, full of all sorts of forgotten virtues and refinements.

Nobody looks at me because everybody is staring so hard at the girls who are improperly dressed.

There is only one place where I can be sure of having attention, and that is in an Old Ladies' Home.

Old ladies admire me." For the second time that day he found himself startled by the eccentricities of the feminine mind; but in Margaret's passive resignation there was none of Patty's rebellion against the cruelty and injustice of life.

Generations of acquiescence were in the slender figure before him; and he realized that the completeness of her surrender to Fate must have softened her destiny.