do you think?"

"I don't see how we can do it, " I replied, the office every day."

"I have to go to

"

"You can take a leave of absence from the store, Mary sugg- ested, "if you would be willing to undergo the training Penny suggests."

"If you would like for me to do it, I will, "I finally agreed, although I did not really expect her to say for me to do it.

"If Penny is willing, I say let's do it," Mary decided, "then if we want to go on our vacation as sisters, we can do it perhaps, but I don't see how it can help but be nice for you.

"

"Ruth might become so effeminate in her manner of walking, and her general actions that it would be glaringly apparent in men's clothes, * Penny pointed out, "you should take that into con-

sideration."

"Really, I doubt that," Mary replied.

As a result of this conversation, it was agreed that Mary and I would move over to Penny's home, and that Penny would let her children's maid go to visit her family for a couple of months, and while she was gone, Mary and I would live in the house, and I would be the children's maid, and be subject to Penny's instruction at all times, and would of course, wear nothing but feminine attire. About a month later, we moved over to Penny's house, and I was in- stalled in the children's room, in place of Annie, the children's nurse maid, who left to visit her family.

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In my new role of children's nurse maid I took care of the two children, and wore my uniforms every day, and changed into a house dress or informal dress in the afternoons after the children's naps. Penny began at once on a rigorous course of training me in posture, walk, arising from a chair, and seating myself, and a hun- dred other details, putting me through the same course of training she had received as a model several years before. No gesture was too small for her attention: putting on one's gloves, or hat, or coat all was practiced again and again, and again, until it began to seem pointless to me, but Penny went over, and over and over everything, time and time again.

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