700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 3
700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 3
The woman sat by herself in the small room at the back of the house. She could hear the voices of the people sitting together in the large front room and at times a few notes from a well-known air would reach her from the radio set which was always kept near the door. Generally she liked to sit with the others in the evening, hearing them talk about the event of the day and expressing opinions on the news given out by B.B.C. The people were employed in such different ways and they held such widely differing opinions that she, who knew little about the arts in any form, believed that to sit in that room was as good as going to watch a play. That night, however, she continued to sit by herself in the small and rather plain back room that had been used as an office for the past thirty years. She looked down at her hands and saw on them signs of years of hard work. Not for her were the white hands of her boarders, few if any of whom had ever done any really hard work in their lives. Her h…
