Some of the girls were nice and some, it must be admitted, were "tough." What was the difference?
The tough girls, with their daring humor, their cigarettes, their easy manners, and their amazingly smart clothes, furnished a sort of spice to the affair.
Sadie and Rosie sometimes discussed the tough girls, and the conversation nearly always ended with one remarking: "Well, if they don't get anything else out of livin', look at the clothes they put on their backs." Perhaps you can understand that longing for pretty gowns, perhaps you can even sympathize with it.

Of course, if you have a number of other resources, you can keep the dress hunger in its proper place.

But if you have nothing in your existence but a machine--at which you toil for others' benefit; Sadie and Rosie continued to spend their Saturday evenings and their Sunday evenings at Silver's Casino.

At first they went home together promptly at midnight.

After midnight these casino dance halls change their character.