Comrade Yetta

"[...] "It's very wrong." It may be that Rachel, who was only nineteen and had been brought up blindfolded, did not see anything wrong in the two dances she had attended. There are many perfectly respectable dances on the East Side. Fate may have led her to such. Or perhaps she glossed over dangers she had seen. She denied Yetta's charge. Rosa snored regularly beside them, while the two girls whispered half the night through. Rachel's defence, although some of it was only half expressed,—she was not used to talking frankly about[...]".