The year was 1895, New York as Marine had often heard about appeared more fascinating than what she had expected it to be. The streets and markets were busier than the ones in London, people appeared more open and outspoken unlike the more than usually refined ones back home that piqued her. Ladies were dressed in a fashion that Marine found more appealing to her taste, straight jackets and A-line skirts without any traces of fancy hats and laced umbrella gowns.
Women were talking to men without any inhibition, moreover she spotted a large number of blacks who fortunately had a better standard of living than what she had witnessed on the island. The United States of America had truly come off age . It was a world that was moving ahead of the rest that were still confined and reluctant to
