box-maker's

Updated: July 4, 2026

Dress, the inevitable masquerade ball, murders and fires, were favorite topics of discussion, the last always with lowered voices and deep-drawn breathing. For fire is the box-maker's terror, the grim specter that always haunts her, and with good reason does she always start at the word.

Dorothy Richardson - The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself