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I said, “Why, yes, naturally. I've been Miss Perkins until up to a couple of weeks ago. I don't want them to think that that person is not here. If they have any business with me, certainly I won't conceal who I am and give them a high hat saying that there is no such person here. Why should I? The people who worked with me don't always remember my new name. They don't remember I'm married. “I didn't say my new name. I was very careful not to.

Anyhow I talked them in to the ides that there wasn't any story and they went home. Not a word appeared in the papers because there wasn't any story. I took great pains to see that there wasn't any story. I didn't argue with them. They asked me about somebody or other else who'd kept their maiden name, and I didn't know about that person. I didn't know whether I approved or not. I hadn't given it any thought. I've always been amused at myself.

The professional end of things was, of course, very hot right then, because we were in the midst of the completing of the factory legislation and of the recommendations. That was just the time that the proprietors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company were brought to trial. As a matter of fact, this is interesting as color of what life was like in those days. The trial took place in the summer of 1913, I think. I forget whether they were charged with manslaughter, or what,