Chapter 1
_ CHAPTER I
"Well, all I‘ve got to say, then, is, you‘re a very foolish woman!"
Ellen Robinson buttoned her long cloak forcefully, and arose with a haughty air from the rocking-chair where she had pointed her remarks for the last half-hour by swaying noisily back and forth and touching the toes of her new high-heeled shoes with a click each time to the floor.
Julia Cloud said nothing. She stood at the front window, looking out across the sodden lawn to the road and the gray sky in the distance. She did not turn around to face her arrogant sister.
"What I‘d like to know is what you do propose to do, then, if you don‘t accept our offer and come to live with us? Were you expecting to keep on living in this great barn of a house?" Ellen Robinson‘s voice was loud and strident with a crude kind of pain. She could not understand her sister, in fact, never had. She had thought her proposition that Julia come to live in her home and earn her board by looking after the fo

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