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"When they first
locked me up," she explained, without any particular evidence of
emotion, "I used to sit and hate you."
"Oh, of course!" came the caustic exclamation from Gilder.
"And then, I thought that perhaps you did not understand," Mary
continued; "that, if I were to tell you how things really are, it
might be you would change them somehow."
At this ingenuous statement, the owner of the store gave forth a
gasp of sheer stupefaction.
"I!" he cried, incredulously. "I change my business policy
because you ask me to!"
There was something imperturbable in the quality of the voice as
the girl went resolutely forward with her explanation. It was as
if she were discharging a duty not to be gainsaid, not to be
thwarted by any difficulty, not even the realization that all the
effort must be ultimately in vain.
"Do you know how we girls live?--but, of course, you don't.
Three of us in one room, doing our own cooking over the
two-burner gas-stove, and our own washing and ironing evenings,
after being on our feet for nine hours.


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