For Love Alone
“Martha was a pale, sedate, but spirited brunette, with wiry hair, long pious nose, and stiff purple mouth. She had been engaged for five years to a clerk in the Treasury Department and was always urging him to pass some examination or other, while they saved up to get married. When they had two hundred pounds she would leave work and they would marry. It was not considered respectable among these girls to work after marriage; a girl was supposed to find a man who would keep her, and if she work...ed after marriage, it was a reflection on man and wife alike. This was Martha’s entire theory of marriage. Since she had first got her job at the age of fifteen she had been making her trousseau, which now filled a tea-chest and a trunk. This alone marked her out as a woman with strength of mind; for the law of the boat was that while every girl might start on her trousseau, that is publicly, two or three mornings after her engagement, even her secret engagement, provided her secret engagement was properly given to rumour, a girl was vapid, a dreamer, silly, even pretentious, who worked on her trousseau (in these circumstances called glory-box, bottom drawer, or hope chest) before her engagement.MoreLess
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