"I worked hard for the old man," she said, "and I only got about one
hundred and thirty dollars for all my work. I thought I made that much."

There is a slight difference in the amount received, in Terry's account
and in Katie's, but it is clear that it was not very much. It is
interesting and characteristic that Terry wants it to appear to have
been "graft," while Katie looks upon the money as honest wages, received
in an unconventional way.

Nick was definitely deserted, and the new "salon" formed, with Terry and
Marie as the bright particular stars and Katie as the happy means of
living, if not in luxury at least in independence. They lived on her
eight or nine dollars a week with the comfortable feeling that there
were several hundred dollars tucked away in the bank, the result of
Katie's savings and Terry's ideas.

The salon was of a more select and higher order intellectually than had
been the Rogues' Gallery. The people who frequented the three little
slummy rooms on the West Side where Terry, Marie, and Katie lived were
mainly anarchists in theory, and occasionally one or another of them was
so in practice. They mainly consisted of rebellious labourers who had
educated themselves in the philosophy of anarchism.[2] They had ideas
about politics and government and the relation between the sexes. They
were indeed all "free lovers," and quite naturally so; the rebellious
temperament instinctively takes as its object of attack the strongest
convention in society. Anarchism in Europe is mainly political; in
America it is mainly sexual; for the reason that there is less freedom
of expression about sex in America than in Europe: so there is a
stronger protest here against the conventions in this field--as the yoke
is more severely felt. While I was in Italy and France I met a number of
anarchists who on the sex side were not ostentatiously rebellious. They
were like the free sort of conservative people everywhere. But in
political ideas they were more logical, sophisticated, and deeply
revolutionary than is the case with the American anarchists, who, on the
other hand both in their lives and their opinions, are extreme rebels
against sex conventions. It is only another instance of how unreason in
one extreme tends to bring about unreason in the other. Our prudishness,
hypocrisy and stupid conventionality in all sex matters is responsible
for the unbalanced license of many a protesting spirit.

So there was many an