Paul's Case
A Pittsburgh schoolboy stands before the faculty in a shabby velvet coat with a red carnation in his buttonhole, unable to explain the insolence they all feel and none can name. His refuge is the usher's job at Carnegie Hall and the stage door of the stock company; his punishment is Cordelia Street, where the houses are identical and the fathers admire Andrew Carnegie, and when he is taken out of school and put behind his father's employer's desk he lifts a week's receipts and boards the New York train instead. Subtitled A Study in Temperament, it is the one piece from her first collection that Willa Cather let stand when she suppressed most of her early fiction.
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