ho should ascend into
the smoky darkness above! Never had she passed without those ominous
imaginings of hers: pretty girls turning into old maids "taking
dictation"--old maids of a dozen different types, yet all looking a
little like herself.

Well, she was here at last! She looked up and down the street quickly,
and then, with a little heave of the shoulders, she went bravely in,
under the sign, and began to climb the wooden steps. Half-way up the
shadows were heaviest, but after that the place began to seem brighter.
There was an open window overhead somewhere, she found; and the steps at
the top were gay with sunshine.

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