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His relations with the older man had become very close, almost like those of father and son, though Risley was hardly old enough for that relation. "And you haven't been since she went to work?" "No." "But you would have, had she gone to college instead of going to work in a shoe-factory?" Risley's voice had a tone of the gentlest conceivable sarcasm. Robert colored. "Yes, I suppose so," he said.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - The Portion of Labor