Peggy did "chew out" one of the secretaries for talking about Don behind his back. Things like that spread like wildfire around an office and are never forgotten. They probably are jealous of her, too.

Well...I'd say it's the high school Queen Bee syndrome. Don is the star quarter-back and Joan is a head cheerleader and Peggy was drapers 'water girl' or helmut holder....now she's on the field with the players. Peggy isn't interested in rites of passage or things "Cheerleader"- so it makes sense. Given the climate of the early 1960's.

I found Peggy's sisters anger kind of refreshing in that in a number of ways Peggy is very selfish. Take responsibility for your child atleast Peggy. I think Peggy will either grow into a rather tragic character or damaged one by the end of the series.

People forget this is 1962! If Peggy's secrets get out she won't have it easy. Look at the treatment Helen Bishop got just for being divorced...imagine the office finds out she had bastard kid...regardless of the father. I wouldn't mind seeing Pete & Peggy bond over the child though.

Peggy is betwist and between in the office because of her job, but I also think her personality kept her away from the other secretaries even before her move to copywriter. They probably see her as thinking she is better than they are. I don't know how Peggy feels about it, though

There is often tension between the professionals and the paraprofessionals. Also, remember how unusual it was for a woman to be doing that job.

I noticed that too, about the secretaries looking down their noses at Peggy. But I can't blame them. She is becoming less of a likeable character this season. She does appear to be self orientated. She's not warm or approachable. She is very detatched.

I think a lot of what her sister said in confession is very appropriate. Maybe because Peggy can do no wrong in her mother's eyes, her sister has had to be the rock in the family without the credit.

Wonder if there is a parallell story line going on here. Two sisters one can do no wrong, but has a lot wrong with her, the other is the good sister but is not acknowledged by the mother. Then go to the draper house and we have a daughter who can do no wrong and a brother who can do no right in the eyes of the mother?

If you watch carefully, you'll notice that Peggy and her mother appear to have a good relationship. She is very attentive toward her mother, and is the one who anticipates her needs.

Peggy was probably the bright child that never gave her mother any trouble. She got good grades, went to secretarial school, graduated and got a good job on Madison Avenue. The only blatant error she has made is flopping on the couch with Pete and giving birth to a child she neither wanted or was prepared for. Can you imagine how she is beating herself up?

Peggy's denial is as close as she will get to the life she had before...the one she lauded over the Wise truck driver. Now her sister has a tangible complaint about goody two-shoes Peggy, and he's walking now. Peggy's life was certainly more glamorous than her own, and it seems her jealousy feeds on trying to make sure everyone now knows the real truth about the life she leads.

Peggy never was "friendly" with the rest of the secretaries, just as sizzie points out, and I think she forgot Joan's advice about "being nice" to the secretaries. I suppose they all view her now as "Miss Too Big For Her Britches". Maybe a little jealousy, but also that Peggy refused from the start to be "one of the girls", and kept her distance anyway.