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were at home on Wednesdays. She was a large sort of woman - anything but elegant and handsome. She had another lady with her whose name I've forgotten. The other lady was a very different type. Mrs. Gash said, “We have come to call on you, Miss Perkins. I don't know whether you realize what it means, but you are the first official person I have ever gone to call on.” The other little woman said the same thing - “We have never gone to call on any of the political people before, or any of the official people, but we were so touched by the fact that a woman had been appointed to the Cabinet that we made up our minds that we would come and call on you. Now that we have seen you we like you very much.”

So I was adopted. As a matter of fact, I was asked to the Georgetown Assembly, which is very super-super. I certainly am not a “cave dweller.” I came with Franklin Roosevelt. I'm a politico. I made a certain number of friends. I certainly wasn't established as a “cave dweller” though. I could never hope to be, or want to be. It's not a very entertaining society. However, of course “cave dwellers” have ceased to be as exclusive as they used to be. Even in Boston people aren't as exclusive as they used to be.