noons
A very good thing , the Subway . It did make Una quiver with the beginnings of rebellious thought as no suave preacher could ever have done . Almost hysterically she resented this daily indignity , which smeared her clean , cool womanhood with a grease of noise and smell and human contact . As was the Subway , so were her noons of elbowing to get impure food in restaurants . 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 .