Some of them would fight for me.

I tell you it is the greatest experience, the most thrilling adventure, a girl ever had." "You are a brave child, and I admire your courage," Gray declared.
"But I'm not.

I'm afraid of everything that other girls are afraid of." Leaning forward confidentially, the girl continued: "I'm a hollow sham, Mr.Gray, but dad doesn't know it.

After I learned how badly he wanted me to be a boy, and how he had set his heart on teaching me the things he thought a son of his should know, I had a secret meeting with myself and I voted unanimously to fill the specifications if it killed me.

So I began a fraudulent life.