"I left my position, and finding things too disagreeable at home where I
continually quarrelled with my mother, I went to visit Kate, until my
friend should return.

"How my ideas and ideals had changed! When I first began to dislike the
work I was forced to do, I dreamed that some charming fairy would come
and release me: I had been taught such a view of life from the novels of
Bertha M. Clay and E. D. E. N. Southworth. Some rich man, young and
charming, possibly the owner of the factory I was working in, would fall
passionately in love with me, marry me and carry me away to his palace!
Gradually, my ideas came down. I should have been glad to marry a
foreman, then some good mechanic, and finally, some workman, however
humble, whom I would love dearly. And now I was deliberately preparing
for a life of prostitution!

"It was then, while living with my dear friend Kate, whom I sometimes
helped in the work she did out, that I met my first, my last, my truest
lover and friend, Terry. We met just at the right moment. I was filled
with rebellion at the powers that were crushing me, breaking me, without
realising why, or how, or what I might make of myself, when he came
along and taught me in his own quiet and gentle convincing way how cruel
and unjust is this scheme of things, and pointed out to me the cruelty
and tyranny of my parents and of all society. He showed me that marriage
such as I had contemplated was a bad form of prostitution, and he told
me why. Of course, I did not grasp all the things he told me at once,
but I listened and felt comforted; I began to feel that perhaps I might
amount to something, might have some life of my own, and that my
rebellion was perhaps justifiable. I began to understand why work was so
objectionable to me and why I rebelled against the authority of my
parents. My conceptions of freedom were crude, but I began to feel that
my revolt was just, and was based upon the terrible injustice whereby
the many must toil so that the few may live in splendour. I will not
weary you with all the details of the things I learned at that time from
Terry. To you it might seem very raw and crude, and you no doubt have
read some of the pamphlets written by socialists and anarchists dealing
with the labour question in all of its aspects. But to me these ideas
were quite new and they seemed grand and noble.

"And Terry revealed to me, too, almost at once, the great inspiring fact
that there is such a