this paperwork i have somebody for you right now you better have for me and she's twenty two graduate from secretarial school honor student conscientious loyal eager to work so i don't believe that she's outside would have seen his face just looked at me like he couldn't believe it i couldn't believe it what did he say he said how do you do he said it twice and he anybody say anything about you being the first colored girl in the office they didn't have to get see their faces where the girl with mr nelson's office looked that me maybe you just what you're going to isn't new when i was a young girl i had to leave high school to get a job i would have given anything to work in a shop that just wasn't done where  nobody ever heard of a nigger working in a shop where white girls and right women came in to buy things so i i got a job with cleaning house and i cleaned house and cried at night until i got married maybe my mother had something she wanted their dad and couldn't have been right about i don't i i don't know but now i have your children and i've watched you grow up and finish school and now married working on a shampoo and crying her eyes that because she can't work in an office well maybe she can work in an office and if she can i don't want to see a thrown away the chance because she's afraid maybe those people hate it maybe some of them do and maybe she's imagining a lot of it dreaming up trouble to hide a  if this is the way it is then she's got to find out and only way to find out is to go to work tomorrow well when she has her own kids she's going to have to watch him get hurt and cry and be afraid and she will always wonder if she couldn't have suffered for them and maybe made their lives a little easier i appreciate your getting here on time to tell me you know exactly why i'm quitting i think you may receive a personal invitation from mr todd dennis of dennis industries to present your case to him personally that it should come to this time i'd like to see her right away but squash this god like a ross on the phone oh i bet may i ask you a personal question of course where do you stand on all this you heard the policy discussion how do you feel well honestly mr dennis i wonder where everybody's been i mean doesn't anybody in this company read the newspapers or go to the movies i think it's about time we woke up you can be a great help to us right now  have a certain amount of prestige here and you said i wouldn't want the other girls to think i was doing it just because i was that all the things don't you start being frightened to think about it it's not an order just a random comment on humanity i'm sorry you want to leave mr right up to now you've been an asset to the company i'm sorry to mr dennis up to now i've enjoyed working i suppose will be looking for another job in a plant that doesn't tire need the rollers of course and  that doesn't have to work in the office with me well that's going to be more and more difficult i think you understand my position i know your position i don't understand it it's not difficult to explain i know i've heard it all before surely you don't expect us to adjust our policies to meet your approval frankly i'd rather not work the work under your new policy rather not work well your lucky how do you mean lucky you can afford that alternative i can't afford it neither can most of the people working here mr bennett i just don't understand why my leaving his suddenly taken on such important i was i felt flattered by i'm not going to even attempt to argue with your prejudices i know that in a few minutes here i can change whatever that made you think the way you've been thinking for the life but if you don't mind i'd like to put the shoe on the other foot you're a popular girl here probably with good reason what you do putting that is set an example for a lot of other girls who can't afford your independence i'm responsible for this company and that means i'm responsible to the stockholders of people working here myself even to the whole country indirectly and it's too late to crawl back into a show i'm afraid i don't understand i'm going to ask you to stay on here a dennis in spite of how you feel to give us to give this girl to give yourself even a chance to find out if we are right this is something that has to be and reasonably well you give it a try i think it only fair to warn you i may do all the wrong things you may be sorry if i stay alive every day i'm in business i'm taking chances i'm willing to take this would say this though it's the first time i've stopped to think about it at all