human
Well, you are rather fresh, but you seem to be acceptable--and now you may look us over and see whether we are acceptable to you. Don't think for one moment that this institution needs you, or is trying to lift you out of a life of sin, or that we suppose this to be the only place in New York to live. We know what we want--we run things on a scientific basis--but we aren't so conceited as to think that everybody likes us. Now, for example, I can see that you don't like me and my ways one bit. But Lord love you, that isn't necessary. The one thing necessary is for me to run this Home according to the book, and if you're fool enough to prefer a slap-dash boarding-house to this hygienic Home, why, you'll make your bed--or rather some slattern of a landlady will make it--and you can lie in it. Come with me. No; first read the rules.
gpt
in any place in the Home,
human
They were not permitted to be out after ten unless their names were specifically entered in the
gpt
Out-late Book before their going. And they were
human
I suppose it isn't forbidden to sleep in our rooms, is it?
gpt
I'd advise you to drop all impudence. You see, you don't do it well. We admit East Side Jews here and they are so much quicker and wittier than you country girls from Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, and Heaven knows where, that you might just as well give up and try to be ladies instead of humorists. Come, we will take a look at the Home.
human
; she would
gpt
Bath Mat.
human
These are the reception-rooms where the girls are allowed to receive callers. _Any_ time--up to a quarter to ten,