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A few nights later Max Barclay was seated in the stalls of the Empire Theatre with Marion.
They never went to the legitimate theatre because she had no evening-dress. Even to be seen in one would have caused comment among her fellow employes at Cunnington's. The girls were never very charitable to each other, for in the pernicious system of "living-in" there is no privacy or home life, no sense of responsibility or of freedom.