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Of one thing she was quite sure . She did not want to return to Willow Springs to live with her father and mother , and after a time she knew she could not continue living with her brother and his wife . For the first time she began seeing the city that spread itself out before her eyes . When she walked at the noon hour along Michigan Boulevard or went into a restaurant or in the evening went home in the street car she saw men and women together . It was the same when on Sunday afternoons in the summer she walked in the park or by the lake . On a street car she saw a small round-faced woman put her hand into the hand of her male companion . Before she did it she looked cautiously about .