Magic

While the girl telling the story finds comfort in talking to Madame Blanchard, Madame Blanchard finds comfort and relaxation in hearing her while the girl is combing her hair. (In response to the previous post...) I believe the reason the story is told is because the girl hears Madame Blanchard talking about how she thinks her linens are bewitched.  She thinks of the story because of the spell that the cook and the madam put on Ninette.  I can't decide what class Madame Blanchard belongs in because the girl talks of her old work place as "a fancy house - maybe you don't know what is a fancy house?...must have heard sometime or other" (p 39).  The madam in the story that the girl is telling seems to hold extreme power, having the police and men on her side at all times.  My question, though, is if the story weighs so much on class, then why is it that the madam does not lay a finger on the girl telling the story, or her cook.  It seems that when the girl was helping Ninette to bed, the madam would have naturally been outraged.  I thoroughly enjoyed Porter's story, and despite it being short in length, it had a lot of depth and meaning.  I am interested to see what the rest of the class thinks about the theme of class systems since that is something I am still trying to figure out.