People Like That

nce she learned of my doing so has her amazement, her incredulity, her indignation and resentment, lesse

ved together, and, knowing it would spoil her trip did I tell of what I had done, I di

ng. She cries easily and well. "I can't take it in, can't even gl

e deep windows and chirps all over the floor. I never knew before how much company sunshine could be; how ma

r on the Avenue, and you might as well be dead as live in t

who object to visiting me in my new home will soon forget I'm living. Those to whom it

why you've made this awful change from living among the best peop

a policeman. The girl next door makes cigarettes, and her friend around the corner works at the Nottingham Overall factory. The cigarette-girl has a beau

nd into them came incredulity. "Do you know them-the cigarette-girl, and the overall-girl, and t

hat.' Our customs and characteristics and habits of thought and manner of life separate us into our particular groups, but in many ways all

ks. I don't know her, never will know her. I can't un

as to get a better effect. "You see, I've wondered sometimes what they thought o

est person I've ever known! You aren't very religious. You neve

uccess at slumming. I'm not

ept

ecause they have to, or because they want to, and occasionally there are other reasons. I used to wonder, for instance, why certain people married each other. Often now,

et who doesn't think it very strange that you won't live with me. That beautiful little Marie Antoinette suite on the third floor is all fixed f

t to live in anybody else's home, not even yours, though you are dear to want me. I am grateful, but I prefer to live here. My present income would make an undignified affair of life among the friends of other days. I'd

on. Hats usually interested her. She talked well concerning them,

where else it would look very well." Her eyes were missing n

jewelry for enough to put the house in order. She expected me to sel

saw." Into Kitty's face came dawning understanding

her death did I understand why she used to take

leave you," Kitty was looking at me speculatively. "How on earth are you going to live o

I live within my income and I've deposited with a trust company, so I can't spend it, a sum of money quite large enough to care for me through a spell of illness in the greediest of hospitals, if I should be ill. And i

ther does father. He's mortified to death about your coming down here to l

n pastime to indulge in it. To prefer Scarborough Square to the Avenue may be queer,

t night that a person with eyes and eyelashes like yours had no right to live as you are living, with just an old woman to do

sessed of an amount of worldly wisdom that is always amazing and at times distressing, but much that interests me has, so far, never interested her. Refusing to study, she has little education, but she h

I feel it is my duty to live here. Thank Heave