The Cost of Living
“The voice of the long-distance operator came through, thin and fitful, in conversation with his secretary. He crossed the room and, opening the door of his office, told his secretary that she could put the phone down, that he would take the call himself. She obeyed, close to tears. She had been upset ever since the morning of the previous day, when she had brought him a letter with the envelope slit down the side.
“I’m awfully sorry,” she had said. “It wasn’t marked personal or anything, an...d when I saw it was from Saint Hilda’s, I just thought it was the term bill for your little girl.”
“Don’t worry about it,” Charles had replied, surprised at her distress. Then he had read the letter. It was from the headmistress of St. Hilda’s School, writing, with evident unease, that Charles’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Joyce, had violated the rules of the school and of normal propriety by vanishing for a weekend. Miss Mercer had cause to believe—all the more since Joyce herself had admitted this—that she had spent the weekend in Albany, in a hotel, with a young man.MoreLess
“I’m awfully sorry,” she had said. “It wasn’t marked personal or anything, an...d when I saw it was from Saint Hilda’s, I just thought it was the term bill for your little girl.”
“Don’t worry about it,” Charles had replied, surprised at her distress. Then he had read the letter. It was from the headmistress of St. Hilda’s School, writing, with evident unease, that Charles’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Joyce, had violated the rules of the school and of normal propriety by vanishing for a weekend. Miss Mercer had cause to believe—all the more since Joyce herself had admitted this—that she had spent the weekend in Albany, in a hotel, with a young man.MoreLess
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