1200 a Year Author:Edna Ferber Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: $1200'A.YEAR -:' ;-.,:;/101 and the mills, and the mill hands. It's another world. And it's not my world. Stoddard. I'm sorry, old girl. It does take every... more »thing that's in me—this job. But I've found myself in it. Jean. But I've lost you. And you're losing me. I thought life was hard on the Hill. But at least I had you. Your plans were my plans. I understood your difficulties there. I could help you fight them. If we had hardships we endured them together. But here Stoddard. I know. This living down here has its drawbacks. You feel them more than I. But [indicating the room] it has had its good side, too. Jean. It's pretty enough, but who sees it? Your mill friends in their great clumping boots! Half the fun of having pretty things is in knowing your women friends will envy you. Stoddard. Haven't I tried to interest you in my work down here? Jean. Interested in what! In steel slabs, and time-and-half overtime, and bonuses per ton! I don't even know what it means. Stoddard. It means more comfort for us than we've ever had since we were married. Jean. Paul, dear, let's get out of this. We don't belong here. We never did. Let's go back chapter{Section 4102 -.:;: -;:-. $1300 .A YEAR to the work you really love. Let's go back to our own kind of people. Stoddard. You know I can't do that—now. Jean. But you do want to, don't you? Be honest. You do. Stoddard. I would like to go back—honestly. Jean. Then give up this Quixotic plan of yours. They came to ask you to give it up—Putnam and the rest. Why won't you listen? Stoddard. I heard what they had to say. Jean. And they couldn't change you? Stoddard. I think there was some change made. [jean looks hopeful.] But not in me. Jean. Paul, does it mean nothing to you that I am thoroughly m...« less