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And
so
,
once
part
and
parcel
of
this
particular
household
,
Roberta
found
after
a
time
,
that
it
,
if
not
Lycurgus
,
was
narrow
and
restricted
--
not
wholly
unlike
the
various
narrow
and
restricted
homes
at
Biltz
.
And
these
lines
,
according
to
the
Newtons
and
their
like
,
to
be
strictly
observed
.
No
good
could
come
of
breaking
them
.
If
you
were
a
factory
employee
you
should
accommodate
yourself
to
the
world
and
customs
of
the
better
sort
of
Christian
factory
employees
.
Every
day
therefore
--
and
that
not
so
very
long
after
she
had
arrived
--
she
found
herself
up
and
making
the
best
of
a
not
very
satisfactory
breakfast
in
the
Newton
dining
room
,
which
was
usually
shared
by
Grace
and
two
other
girls
of
nearly
their
own
age
--
Opal
Feliss
and
Olive
Pope
--
who
were
connected
with
the
Cranston
Wickwire
Company
.
Also
by
a
young
electrician
by
the
name
of
Fred
Shurlock
,
who
worked
for
the
City
Lighting
Plant
.
And
immediately
after
breakfast
joining
a
long
procession
that
day
after
day
at
this
hour
made
for
the
mills
across
the
river
.
For
just
outside
her
own
door
she
invariably
met
with
a
company
of
factory
girls
and
women
,
boys
and
men
,
of
the
same
relative
ages
,
to
say
nothing
of
many
old
and
weary-looking
women
who
looked
more
like
wraiths
than
human
beings
,
who
had
issued
from
the
various
streets
and
houses
of
this
vicinity
And
as
the
crowd
,
because
of
the
general
inpour
into
it
from
various
streets
,
thickened
at
Central
Avenue
,
there
was
much
ogling
of
the
prettier
girls
by
a
certain
type
of
factory
man
,
who
,
not
knowing
any
of
them
,
still
sought
,
as
Roberta
saw
it
,
unlicensed
contacts
and
even
worse
.
Yet
there
was
much
giggling
and
simpering
on
the
part
of
girls
of
a
certain
type
who
were
by
no
means
as
severe
as
most
of
those
she
had
known
elsewhere
.
Shocking
!
And
at
night
the
same
throng
,
re-forming
at
the
mills
,
crossing
the
bridge
at
the
depot
and
returning
as
it
had
come
.
And
Roberta
,
because
of
her
social
and
moral
training
and
mood
,
and
in
spite
of
her
decided
looks
and
charm
and
strong
desires
,
feeling
alone
and
neglected
.
Oh
,
how
sad
to
see
the
world
so
gay
and
she
so
lonely
.
And
it
was
always
after
six
when
she
reached
home
.
And
after
dinner
there
was
really
nothing
much
of
anything
to
do
unless
she
and
Grace
attended
one
or
another
of
the
moving
picture
theaters
or
she
could
bring
herself
to
consent
to
join
the
Newtons
and
Grace
at
a
meeting
of
the
Methodist
Church
.
None
the
less
once
part
and
parcel
of
this
household
and
working
for
Clyde
she
was
delighted
with
the
change
.
This
big
city
.
This
fine
Central
Avenue
with
its
stores
and
moving
picture
theaters
.
These
great
mills
.
And
again
this
Mr.
Griffiths
,
so
young
,
attractive
,
smiling
and
interested
in
her
.
In
the
same
way
Clyde
,
on
encountering
her
,
was
greatly
stirred
.
Since
the
abortive
contact
with
Dillard
,
Rita
and
Zella
,
and
afterwards
the
seemingly
meaningless
invitation
to
the
Griffiths
with
its
introduction
to
and
yet
only
passing
glimpse
of
such
personages
as
Bella
,
Sondra
Finchley
and
Bertine
Cranston
,
he
was
lonely
indeed
.
That
high
world
!
But
plainly
he
was
not
to
be
allowed
to
share
in
it
.
And
yet
because
of
his
vain
hope
in
connection
with
it
,
he
had
chosen
to
cut
himself
off
in
this
way
.
And
to
what
end
?
Was
he
not
if
anything
more
lonely
than
ever
?
Mrs.
Peyton
!
Going
to
and
from
his
work
but
merely
nodding
to
people
or
talking
casually
--
or
however
sociably
with
one
or
another
of
the
storekeepers
along
Central
Avenue
who
chose
to
hail
him
--
or
even
some
of
the
factory
girls
here
in
whom
he
was
not
interested
or
with
whom
he
did
not
dare
to
develop
a
friendship
.
What
was
that
?
Just
nothing
really
.
And
yet
as
an
offset
to
all
this
,
of
course
,
was
he
not
a
Griffiths
and
so
entitled
to
their
respect
and
reverence
even
on
this
account
?
What
a
situation
really
!
What
to
do
!
And
at
the
same
time
,
this
Roberta
Alden
,
once
she
was
placed
here
in
this
fashion
and
becoming
more
familiar
with
local
conditions
,
as
well
as
the
standing
of
Clyde
,
his
charm
,
his
evasive
and
yet
sensible
interest
in
her
,
was
becoming
troubled
as
to
her
state
too
.
For
once
part
and
parcel
of
this
local
home
she
had
joined
she
was
becoming
conscious
of
various
local
taboos
and
restrictions
which
made
it
seem
likely
that
never
at
any
time
here
would
it
be
possible
to
express
an
interest
in
Clyde
or
any
one
above
her
officially
.
For
there
was
a
local
taboo
in
regard
to
factory
girls
aspiring
toward
or
allowing
themselves
to
become
interested
in
their
official
superiors
.
Religious
,
moral
and
reserved
girls
did
n't
do
it
.
And
again
,
as
she
soon
discovered
,
the
line
of
demarcation
and
stratification
between
the
rich
and
the
poor
in
Lycurgus
was
as
sharp
as
though
cut
by
a
knife
or
divided
by
a
high
wall
.
And
another
taboo
in
regard
to
all
the
foreign
family
girls
and
men
--
ignorant
,
low
,
immoral
,
un-American
!
One
should
--
above
all
--
have
nothing
to
do
with
them
.
But
among
these
people
as
she
could
see
--
the
religious
and
moral
,
lower
middle-class
group
to
which
she
and
all
of
her
intimates
belonged
--
dancing
or
local
adventurous
gayety
,
such
as
walking
the
streets
or
going
to
a
moving
picture
theater
--
was
also
taboo
.
And
yet
she
,
herself
,
at
this
time
,
was
becoming
interested
in
dancing
.
Worse
than
this
,
the
various
young
men
and
girls
of
the
particular
church
which
she
and
Grace
Marr
attended
at
first
,
were
not
inclined
to
see
Roberta
or
Grace
as
equals
,
since
they
,
for
the
most
part
,
were
members
of
older
and
more
successful
families
of
the
town
.
And
so
it
was
that
after
a
very
few
weeks
of
attendance
of
church
affairs
and
services
,
they
were
about
where
they
had
been
when
they
started
--
conventional
and
acceptable
,
but
without
the
amount
of
entertainment
and
diversion
which
was
normally
reaching
those
who
were
of
their
same
church
but
better
placed
.
And
so
it
was
that
Roberta
,
after
encountering
Clyde
and
sensing
the
superior
world
in
which
she
imagined
he
moved
,
and
being
so
taken
with
the
charm
of
his
personality
,
was
seized
with
the
very
virus
of
ambition
and
unrest
that
afflicted
him
.
And
every
day
that
she
went
to
the
factory
now
she
could
not
help
but
feel
that
his
eyes
were
upon
her
in
a
quiet
,
seeking
and
yet
doubtful
way
.
Yet
she
also
felt
that
he
was
too
uncertain
as
to
what
she
would
think
of
any
overture
that
he
might
make
in
her
direction
to
risk
a
repulse
or
any
offensive
interpretation
on
her
part
.
And
yet
at
times
,
after
the
first
two
weeks
of
her
stay
here
,
she
wishing
that
he
would
speak
to
her
--
that
he
would
make
some
beginning
--
at
other
times
that
he
must
not
dare
--
that
it
would
be
dreadful
and
impossible
.
The
other
girls
there
would
see
at
once
.
And
since
they
all
plainly
felt
that
he
was
too
good
or
too
remote
for
them
,
they
would
at
once
note
that
he
was
making
an
exception
in
her
case
and
would
put
their
own
interpretation
on
it
.
And
she
knew
the
type
of
a
girl
who
worked
in
the
Griffiths
stamping
room
would
put
but
one
interpretation
on
it
--
that
of
looseness
.
