{"product_id":"2940013414693","title":"Angela's Business","description":"ANGELA'S BUSINESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing an author actually at work, and not an author being photographed\u003cbr\u003eat work by a lady admirer, he did not gaze large-eyed at a poppy in a\u003cbr\u003ecrystal vase, one hand lightly touching his forehead, the other tossing\u003cbr\u003eoff page after page in high godlike frenzy. On the contrary, the young\u003cbr\u003eman at the table yawned, lolled, sighed, scratched his ear, read\u003cbr\u003esnatches of Virginia Carter's \"Letters to My Girl Friends\" in the\u003cbr\u003emorning's \"Post,\" read snatches of any printed matter that happened to\u003cbr\u003ebe about, and even groaned. When he gazed, it was at no flower, but more\u003cbr\u003eprobably at his clock, a stout alarm-clock well known to the trade as\u003cbr\u003e\"Big Bill\"; and the clock gazed back, since there was a matter between\u003cbr\u003ethem this evening, and seemed to say, \"Well, are you going to the\u003cbr\u003eRedmantle Club, or are you _not_?\" But that was precisely the point\u003cbr\u003eon which the young man at the table had not yet made up his mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course, if he went to the Redmantle Club, he could not possibly spend\u003cbr\u003ethe whole evening here, writing, and, oddly enough, this was at once a\u003cbr\u003ecogent reason for staying away from the Redmantle Club, and a seductive\u003cbr\u003eargument for going to the same. No lady admirer could ever grasp this\u003cbr\u003eparadox, but every true writer must admit that I know his secret\u003cbr\u003eperfectly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom time to time, no diversion offering, the author would read over the\u003cbr\u003elast sentence he had written, which very likely ran as follows:--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     We have a society organized on the agreeable assumption that\u003cbr\u003e     every woman, at twenty-five or thereabouts, finds herself in\u003cbr\u003e     possession of a home, a husband, and three darling little\u003cbr\u003e     curly-headed children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStimulated a trifle, he would thereupon sharpen up his pencil and charge\u003cbr\u003eforward a few sentences, as now:--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Slipshod people never test such old assumptions against\u003cbr\u003e     actuality; they cling to what their grandfathers said, and call\u003cbr\u003e     their slipshodness conservatism. So (like ostriches) they avoid\u003cbr\u003e     the fact that there are three large and growing classes of\u003cbr\u003e     women who simply have no relation to their comfortable old\u003cbr\u003e     theory. I refer, of course, to the classes of Temporary\u003cbr\u003e     Spinsters, of Permanent Spinsters, and of Married but\u003cbr\u003e     Idle--childless wives living in boarding-houses, for example.\u003cbr\u003e     Let no Old Tory conceive that he has disposed of the Woman\u003cbr\u003e     Question until he can plainly answer: What are all these\u003cbr\u003e     various women to DO in their fifteen waking hours a day?","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082794090736,"sku":"2940013414693","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013414693_p0.jpg?v=1763580601","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013414693","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}