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For reward she was permitted to work all day with Troy Wilkins . And for heavens and green earth , she had a chair and a desk . But the human organism , which can modify itself to arctic cold and Indian heat , to incessant labor or the long enervation of luxury , learns to endure . Unwilling dressing , lonely breakfast , the Subway , dull work , lunch , sleepiness after lunch , the hopelessness of three o'clock , the boss 's ill-tempers , then the Subway again , and a lonely flat with no love , no creative work ; and at last a long sleep so that she might be fresh for such another round of delight . So went the days . Yet all through them she found amusement , laughed now and then , and proved the heroism as well as the unthinking servility of the human race . § 2 The need of feeling that there were people near to her urged Una to sell her furniture and move from the flat to a boarding-house .