-- Hilda dont fret.
-- Well Maggie its a blow.
-- Do bother you, do get you down.
-- Ohought they were going to admit me to the servatory but now I know they will never admit me to the servatory.
-- Yes they are very particular about who they admit to the servatory. They will never admit you to the servatory.
-- They will never admit me to the servatory, I know that now.
-- You are not servatory material Im afraid. Thats the plain truth of it.
-- Youre not important, they told me, just remember that, youre not important, whats so important about you? What?
-- Hilda dont fret.
-- Well Maggie its a blow.
-- When are you going to ge yourself, ge yourself into a loaf or a fish?
-- Christian imagery is taught at the servatory, also Islamic imagery and the imagery of Public Safety.
-- Red, yellow, and green circles.
-- Wheold me I got between the poles of my rickshaw and trotted heavily away.
-- The great black ironwork doors of the servatory barred to you forever.
-- Trotted heavily away in the dire of my house. My small, poor house.
-- Hilda dont fret.
-- Yes, I am still trying to get into the servatory, although my ces are probably worse than ever.
-- They dont regnant women in the servatory.
-- I didhem, I lied about it.
-- Didnt they ask you?
-- No they fot to ask me and I didhem.
-- Well then its hardly on that at that --
-- I felt they knew.
-- The servatory is hostile to the new spirit, the new spirit is not liked there.
-- Well Maggie its, a blow heless. I had to go bay house.
-- Where although you eain the foremost artists and intellectuals of your time you grressively more despo and depressed.
-- Yes he was a frightful lawyer.
-- Lover?
-- That tohtful. He said he could not get me into the servatory because of my unimportance.
-- Was there a fee?
-- Theres always a fee. Pounds and pounds.
-- I stood oerrace at the rear of the servatory and studied the flagstones reddened with the lifebloods of geions of servatory students. Standing there I reflected: Hilda will never be admitted to the servatory.
-- I read the servatory Circular and my name was not among those listed.
-- Well I suppose it was in part your espousal of the new spirit that ted against you.
-- I will never abjure the new spirit.
-- And youre a veteran too, I should have thought that would have weighed in your favor.
-- Well Maggie its a disappoi, I must admit that frankly.
-- Hilda dont weep and tear your hair here where they see you.
-- Are they looking out of the windows?
-- Probably theyre looking out of the windows.
-- Its said that they import a cook, o days.
-- They have naked models too.
-- Do you really think so? Im not surprised.
-- The best students get their dinners sent up on trays.
-- Do you really think so? Im not surprised.
-- Grain salads and large portions of choice meats.
-- Oh it hurts, it hurts, it hurts.
-- Bread with drippings, and o days cake.
-- Im as gifted as they are, Im as gifted as some of them.
-- Deade by a ittee of ghosts. They drop black beans or white beans into a pot.
-- Ohought I was to be admitted. There were enciers.
-- Youre not servatory material Im afraid. Only the best material is servatory material.
-- Im