In the Cage #266276

It had occurred to her early that in her position - that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guineapig or a magpie - she should know a great many persons without their recognizing the acquaintance. That made it an emotion the more lively - though singularly rare and always, even then, with opportunity still very much smothered - to see any one come in whom she knew, as she called it, outside, and who could add something to the poor identity of her function.