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Mother's a suffragist,
but"--there came another wave of faint color along with her
smile--"but--well, she's awfully respectable, you know."
She didn't seem to mind his laughing out at that, though she didn't join
him.
"What about the other interesting member of the family," he asked
presently, "your sister? Which is she, a suffragist or a feminist?"
"I suppose," she said, "you'll call Portia a feminist. Anyway, she
smokes cigarettes. Oh, can't I get you some? I forgot!"
He had a case of his own in his pocket, he said, and got one out now
and lighted it.
"Why," she went on, "Portia hasn't time to talk about it much. You see,
she's a business woman. She's a house decorator. I don't mean painting
and paper-hanging. She tells you what kind of furniture to buy, and then
sells it to you. Portia's terribly clever and awfully independent."
"All right," he said. "That brings us down to you. What are you?"
She sighed. "I'm sort of a black sheep, I guess. I'm just in the
university.


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