Miss Marcy said “Of course you might,” very politely; then turned to me. I said my speed-writing was getting quite fast, but of course it wasn’t quite like real shorthand (or quite like real speed-writing, for that matter); and I couldn’t type and the chance of getting anywhere near a typewriter was remote. “Then I’m afraid, just until you get going with your literary work, we’ll have to count you as nil,” said Miss Marcy. “Thomas, of course, is bound to be nil for a few years yet. Rose, dear?” Now if anyone in this family is nil as an earner, it is Rose; for though she plays the piano a bit
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