Somehow or other, she seemed to grow taller.
"I do not understand this," she said.

"I do not understand your being here, one of them, dressed like them, speaking their language, sharing their luxuries.

It is a great blow to me.

It is perhaps because I am foolish, but it tortures me!" "But isn't that a little unreasonable ?" he asked her quietly.

"To accomplish anything in this world, it is necessary to know more than one side of life." "But this--this," she cried hysterically, "is the side which has made our blood boil for generations! These women in silk and laces, these idle, pleasure-loving men, this eating and drinking, this luxury in beautiful surroundings, with ears deafened to all the mad, sobbing cries of the world! This is their life day by day.