MICHAEL
Miss Sally, are we going to take a ride up in the elevator?
SALLY
I don't know how comfortable I am with taking a ride in those newfangled devices.
MICHAEL
But Miss Sally, you have to want to. It's the latest thing since motorized transport.
SALLY
And those things I'd rather not be in either.
MICHAEL
Why not?
SALLY
What would happen if you got into an accident? They go so terribly fast and a horse and buggy collision couldn't be anywhere near as bad as all the bent metal and such, the likes of which come from motorized transport.
MICHAEL
Nothing more than I scratch, I would think. You aren't as high up as you would be on a horse.
SALLY
Too true, my dear boy. At any rate, I would rather not risk it.
DOOR KEEP
Good day Miss Owens.
SALLY
Hello Ralph. Good to see you. How are you doing?
DOOR KEEP
Well, Miss Owens. And yourself?
SALLY
Oh I'm quite pleasant at present. How goes your wife and children?
DOOR KEEP
Also doing well Miss Owens. Our eldest has gotten a job in a factory as a foreman. He's doing fine for himself.
SALLY
Good to hear.
DOOR KEEP
I shouldn't keep you longer. Best to get in out of the cold.
SALLY
Yes, indeed.
SFX - Door being opened and closed. Walking on marble
MICHAEL
Miss Sally, can we please please please use the elevator. At least just once?
SALLY
Will you not cease to be so persistent?
MICHAEL
Not hardly, Miss Sally.
SALLY
Very well.
SFX - Gated door open
LIFT MAN
Good day, Miss Owens. I don't recall seeing you here before today. Trying out the elevator for the first time?
SALLY
Michael wants to ride it. It's not my preference. I think walking up the stairs to be quite healthy exercise. He is carrying his musical instrument in the case, though. It is rather clunky to haul up such a long flight of stairs you know.
LIFT MAN
Quite. Please mind the gate and come along.
NARRATOR
And so Sally Owens and her student took a ride on the elevator.
Sally was not just excellent at music. She also was quite the talent when it came to art. Many had said her portraits looked so life-like that it was hard to imagine she did them herself by hand. Some thought they were just photographs. Her students were always in awe of her masterful talents. Quite often she would hire people to give them a chance at something better in life -- better than a factory job. The city still talked about the Triangle fire.
As the hours passed, two of those new hires (although unbeknownst to them) were approaching the apartment building that evening, not sure what to expect, or why Sally Owens had taken interest in them.
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