What Luck! A Study in Opposites & Surprise House

Excerpt: “Side by side on the crowded waiting bench of the Infirmary sat two women, each with a child at her elbow, who had been eyeing one another furtively. They were silently criticizing in different languages. “Her mourning must have cost much money!” thought Mrs. Rogazrovitch, enviously, looking down at her own painful saffron coat. “Cielo! What a terrible hat!” mused the other woman, conside...