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Kate walks to her job with a heavy heart. Seeing other sickly girls going to their jobs reinforces her reservations.
The footman tells Kate she is to see Mrs. Mantalini. While waiting, she overhears a fight between Mrs. Mantalini and her husband. He is criticizing her for being jealous, warning her it is going to make her an unhappy person. She says she is unhappy and accuses him of flirting with one of the workers. He tells her he could have married two countesses. She remarks that it was just one countess in his original story, but he insists there were two. However, the fact that he married her instead fl
