The
girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine
distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive
and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room
and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an
active mind. Added to these things she had, without the least
knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her
ability to meet life.
During the years spent in the eastern college Margaret had made up her
mind that whatever happened she was not going to let her life be dull
or uninteresting. Once when a girl friend from Chicago came to the
college to visit her the two went for a day out of doors and sat down
upon a hillside to talk things over. "We women have been fools,"
Margaret had declared. "If Father and Mother think that I am going to
come home and marry some stick of a man they are mistaken. I have
learned to smoke cigarettes and have had my share of a bottle of wine.
That may not mean anything to you. I do not think it amounts to much
either but it expresses something. It fairly makes me ill when I think
of how men have always patronised women. They want to keep evil things
away from us--Bah! I am sick of that idea and a lot of the other girls
here feel the same way.
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