CW Logo  Reprint: Dorothy Day Library on the Web  The Eleventh
Virgin Part III, Chapter I  by Dorothy Day  Summary: (DOC #878).
            Mother Grace thought that it would be tactless to
show her enthusiasm for what June was about to do. If she showed
the happiness she felt, she thought it would reveal to June her
disapproval of what her daughter had done before.            
"As for those three boys, Hugh and Daniel and Kenneth--they're
perfect dears. And the apartment is a lovely one. I don't blame
you for preferring it to a furnished room," she had said. "Of
course your friends think nothing of it and neither do their
friends. But think of the world. Not your world, I suppose, but
my world. If any of my friends ask 'where's June living now' and
I say, nonchalantly, 'with three men over on Waverly Place'--
what do you suppose they'll think? Not that I'm likely to answer
them in any such way."             She wrinkled her eyebrows
considerably over the jail episode and June noticed the little
pucker of