the minimum wage; and pass the Patients Bill of Rights.

mourning ribbons and met the returning party with some pride. This

pride, though justifiable, displeased Katerina Ivanovna for some

reason: "as though the table could not have been laid except by Amalia

Ivanovna!" She disliked the cap with new ribbons, too. "Could she be

stuck up, the stupid German, because she was mistress of the house,

and had consented as a favour to help her poor lodgers! As a favour!

Fancy that! Katerina Ivanovna's father who had been a colonel and

almost a governor had sometimes had the table set for forty persons,