Then
those girls have an awful time, if they're careful about their associates.
Why, it's getting so a model is expected to sell goods herself--held
responsible if she doesn't. No sale, no job next week. See the situation,"
Pros. added, "--on the one hand the buyer, a vain man away from home, with
thousands to invest; on the other a girl who must get that money for her
firm. Well, of course it's not so bad as that, but----"
"But _I_ wouldn't corset myself Redfern shape and go into such horrid
places for the world," I cried.
No more than Judge Baker, or Father, or any one else, could Reid see my
situation. What do I care about earning $8 a week--or $80? I must have a
great deal of money, at once; to pay my debts and to live upon. Men get
money quickly--in Wall Street or by inventions or----
"Course not," said Pros. "You're the Princess; and Princesses may be
Honorary Presidents and ask questions and take an interest, but they don't
do things."
"Pros. is right about the stage," said Cadge; "that's the best sort of
wholesale business. You sell a chance to look at you to fifteen hundred
people at once; and folks can't paw you over to see how your clothes fit,
either.
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