The Woman Who Tried to Be Good and Other Stories by Edna Ferber Fiction Literary

<p>Before she tried to be a good woman she had been a very bad woman ' so bad that she could trail her wonderful apparel up and down Main Street from the Elm Tree Bakery to the railroad tracks without once having a man doff his hat to her or a woman bow. You passed her on the street with a surreptitious glance though she was well worth looking at ' in her furs and laces and plumes. She had the only full-length mink coat in our town and Ganz's shoe store sent to Chicago for her shoes. Hers were the miraculously small feet you frequently see in stout women.</p>