This, so long as she gave her whole mind to her work.
But after the first great cold, so depressing, so subtly
undermining, she began to go about, to think of, to
need and to buy clothes, to spend money in a dozen
necessary ways. After all, she was simply borrowing
the money. Presently, she would be making a career,
would be earning large sums. She would pay back
everything, with interest. Stanley meant for her to
use the money. Really, she ought to use it. How
would her career be helped by her going about looking
a dowd and a frump? She had always been used to the
comforts of life. If she deprived herself of them, she
would surely get into a frame of mind where her work
would suffer. No, she must lead the normal life of a
woman of her class. To work all the time--why, as
Jennings said, that took away all the freshness, made
one stale and unfit. A little distraction--always, of
course, with musical people, people who talked and
thought and did music--that sort of distraction was
quite as much a part of her education as the singing
lessons.
Pages:
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288