"Why on earth perfectly comfortable, supposedly Christian human beings
should want personally to know anything about uncomfortable, unfit,
under-paid ones--"
"Oh, but I think they ought to!" Again the pretty little creature in
green chiffon nodded toward me. "But you won't let Miss Heath have a
chance to say anything! Some one told me such queer people came to see
her. Factory-girls and working-women and--oh--all sorts of people like
that. Is it really so, Miss Heath?"
"Very interesting people come to see me. They are undoubtedly of
different sorts, but one of the illuminating discoveries of life is
that human beings are amazingly alike. Veneering is a great help, of
course. If you knew my friends you would find--"
"I'd love to know them. I always have liked queer people. I've been
crazy to come and see you, but mother won't let-- I mean--"
"Mrs. Henderson says she met a young man when she went to see you who
was the cleverest person she ever talked, to." Gentle Annie Gaines was
venturing to come to my help. "He seemed to know something of
everything.
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