Wanda had been educated at northeastern schools and she was proud of her education. She felt humiliated doing this work—counting glass table tops. All her friends, and her mother too, thought that Wanda worked in the design department at one of Baron Hofstedter’s global enterprises.
Every morning she drove her little sports car to the Baron Glassworks and punched the time clock. She went to the receiving room where she counted glass table tops until lunchtime. She worried about the past-due payments on her car and often lost count of the glass table tops. She didn’t care.
When Maureen and Dora said she could sit with them, she first looked around for another table. Then she sat with them.
Wanda said, “I’ve never eaten in a cafeteria before”
Maureen said, “Well, where are you from?”
Wanda lied when she said she was from the northeast and she had gone to Harvard.
Dora said “Really, you could never tell it.”
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