right thing at a wrong time, it shows you are from the West. At
first, I couldn't say a word, or turn around, without showing that
I was from the West. But although I've been from home only a few
days, I'm getting so that nobody can tell that I'm more important
than the furniture around me. I'm trying to be just like the one
I'm with, and I don't believe an outsider can tell that I have any
more sense than the rest of them.

"Miss Sellimer is so nice to me. I told her right at the start that
I didn't know anything about the big world, and she teaches me
everything. I'd be more comfortable if she could forget about my
saving her life, but she never can, and is so grateful it makes me
feel that I'm enjoying all this on false pretenses for you know my
finding her was only an accident. Her mother is very pleasant to
me--much more so than to her. Bill, you know how you speak to your
horse, sometimes, when it acts contrary? That's the way Miss
Sellimer speaks to her mother, at times. However, they don't seem
very well acquainted with each other. Of course if they'd lived
together in a cove for years, they'd have learned to tell each other
their thoughts and plans, but out in the big world there isn't time
for anything except to dress and go.

"I'm learning to dress. I used to think a girl could do that to
please herself, but no, the dresses are a thousand times more
important than the people inside them. It wouldn't matter how wise
you are if your dress is wrong, nor would it matter how foolish, if
your dress is like everybody else's. A person could be independent
and do as she pleased, but she wouldn't be in society. And nobody
would believe she was independent, they would just think she didn't
know any better, or was poor. Because, they don't know anything