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Their ways to their work lay together for a time. And now they found
they could talk. Curiously enough, the worst of their depression seemed
over now that they had actually donned the blue. Denton could talk with
interest even of the work that lay before them. "Whatever it is," he
said, "it can't be so hateful as that hat shop. And after we have paid
for Dings, we shall still have a whole penny a day between us even now.
Afterwards--we may improve,--get more money."
Elizabeth was less inclined to speech. "I wonder why work should seem
so hateful," she said.
"It's odd," said Denton. "I suppose it wouldn't be if it were not the
thought of being ordered about.... I hope we shall have decent
managers."
Elizabeth did not answer. She was not thinking of that. She was tracing
out some thoughts of her own.
"
Of course," she said presently, "we have been using up work all our
lives. It's only fair--"
She stopped. It was too intricate.
"
We paid for it," said Denton, for at that time he had not troubled
himself about these complicated things.
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