There is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset

The house on South Fifteenth Street saw Peter often after that. Mason could have given him work every night if he had wanted it. As it was he gave him enough to cause him to come for rehearsals three and four times a week. Usually Peter terminated his practice with a visit to Maggie, who got home regularly at five-thirty when she was in town.

She appreciated Peter's company, for she had been very lonely in this big city with its impregnable social fortresses. "It's a wonder you come to see me so often, Peter," she told him wistfully. "Being a Bye gives you the entrance everywhere among the oldest of these ‘old Philadelphians."