Mary nodded. "Such as it is. I wanted to give up and use a story, but Nora said it wouldn't do at all; every exchange from Boston to San Francisco would have an article about the frothy foam that the Harding 'Argus' was printing. Roberta, you know you can write. Why don't you do us some essays? They are a lot easier to write than stories. You just have to look up your subject and think of a clever beginning and a few sketchy sentences that Dr. Eaton would call suggestive because they don't mean anything in particular. I can't see why more of the literary crowd doesn't go in for essays."