He habitually evinced great severity in the women's workshop, for he had hitherto held the view that an employer who jested with his workgirls was a lost man.

My hopes appeared to be well founded, for the large booking-hall at the station was thronged with a multitude entirely strange to meworkmen and workwomen and workgirls crowded the place.

Still, the fundamental, cardinal quality of my adventure remained prominent in my being, and it gave me countenance among these taciturn, musing workgirls, who were always at grips with the realities of life.