Miriam

“The service had the air of a protest,” Miriam Cantor-Stone, an intern at Lilith Magazine, told me after the gathering wrapped up.

I'm surprised at you, Miriam, when you know how dear mamma would have forbidden it.

Miriam spoke unguardedly, but Evie was too preoccupied to notice the bitterness of the tone.

Without a word Miriam Challoner went over to the sofa, and soon gave way to the first sleep she had had in many days.

I am going to play right guard, and Miriam is to play left forward.

Then the full force of Miriam's words dawning on her she looked at her friend in a startled way.