正文 On the Steps of the Conservatory

-- 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

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