They gather around her at the end of the day while she tells them about the big fantastic world beyond the small boroughs of Pennsylvania. Even as she is answering their questions, she is aware of the unlikelihood that she, a small-town girl whose life up until now had been lived within two square miles, would ever be speaking of her travels to distant places. Looking into their faces, listening to the excitement in their voices, brings her a sudden contentment because her life seems finally to have found its proper course. For so long now she never felt a part of the world that everyone else occupied, and now at last she occupies a different world. The girls have heard that she’ll be working only half-day shifts now, and they want to know if this is true. Yes, it’s true. Oh dear, bread and beer, if I was married, I wouldn’t be here, one of them sings with a great, jealous sigh. Peggy’s life has opened to her. Of course the world is full of married ladies, some of them even newly married like her.
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