characteristic of he laughed when they came into the glow of the house he laughed again he condescended i ve got to hand it to you you re consistent all right i d of thought that after getting this look in at a lot of good decent farmers you d get over this high art stuff but you hang right on well to herself he takes advantage of my trying to be good tell you there s just three classes of people folks that haven t got any ideas at all and that kick about everything and regular the fellows with that and get the world s work done then i m probably a she smiled no i won t admit it you do like to talk but at a show down you d prefer sam to any damn long haired artist well oh well my we re just going to change everything aren t we going to tell fellows that have been making for ten years how to direct em and tell how to build towns and make the magazines publish nothing but a lot of stories about old maids and about wives that don t know what they want oh we re a terror come on now come out of it wake up you ve got a fine nerve kicking about a because it shows a few legs why you re always these greek dancers or whatever they are that don t even wear a but dear the trouble with that it wasn t that it got in so many legs but that it and promised main street to show more of them and then didn t the promise it was peeping tom s idea of humor i don t get you look here now she lay awake while he with sleep i must go on my ideas he calls them i that him watching him operate would be enough it isn t not after the first thrill i don t want to hurt him but i must go on it isn t enough to stand by while he fills an and me bits of information if i stood by and admired him long enough i would be content i would become a nice little woman the village already i m not reading anything i haven t touched the piano for a week i m letting the days drown in worship of a good deal ten more per acre i won t i won t how i ve failed at everything the parties city hall and but it doesn t i m not trying to reform the town now i m not trying to clubs and sit in dean white yearning up at with i am trying to save my soul will asleep there trusting me thinking he holds me and i m leaving him all of me left him when he laughed at me it wasn t enough for him that i admired him i must change myself and grow like him he takes advantage no more it s finished i will go on iv her lay on top of the upright piano she picked it up since she had last touched it the dried strings had snapped and upon it lay a gold and crimson cigar band she longed to see for the of the brethren in the faith but s was heavy upon her she could not determine whether she was checked by fear or him or by � by dislike of the labor of the scenes which would be involved in asserting independence she was like the at fifty not afraid main street of death but bored by the of bad and bad and sitting up all night on windy the second evening after the she summoned and to the house for pop corn and in the living room and the value of manual training in below the eighth while sat beside at the dining table pop corn she was quickened by the speculation in his eyes she murmured do you want to help me my dear how i don t know he waited i think i want you to help me find out what has made the darkness of the women gray darkness and shadowy trees we re all in it ten million women young married women with good prosperous husbands and business women in linen and that out to and wives of and who really like to make butter and go to church what is it we want � and need will there would say that we need lots of children and hard work but it isn t that there s the same discontent in women with eight children and one more coming � always one more coming and you find it in and wives who just as much as in girl college who wonder how they can escape their kind parents what do we want essentially i think you are like myself you want to go back to an age of tranquillity and manners you want to good taste again just good taste fastidious people oh � no i believe all of us want the same things � we re all together the workers and the women and the farmers and the negro race and the colonies and even a few of the s all the same revolt in all the classes that have waited taken advice i think perhaps we want a more conscious life we re tired of and sleeping and dying we re tired of seeing just a few people able to be we re tired of always hope till the next generation we re tired of hearing the and priests and cautious and the husbands us be calm be patient wait we have the plans for a already made just give us a bit more time and we ll produce main street it trust us we re wiser than you for ten thousand years they ve said 