All her parents had been able to do for
her was to see that she was as fully equipped for the adventure of life
as their limited means would permit. Those means would die when her
chief parent died, and the style in which they had lived left no margin
for saving.
So, with cool calculation, Effie had set about her life's effort. Nor
had she considered herself unsuccessful in the first spreading of her
maiden wings. A millionaire's son! It was a splendid match. It had
met with the entire approval of her family.
Then had come disillusionment. A determined opposition from Bob's
father. She had been urged to break off the engagement. She even
intended to do so. But some how she had miscalculated the nature which
her education had been powerless to eradicate. She realized at last
when the demands of her campaign made themselves heard, that there was
something she had hitherto completely ignored. There was the woman's
heart of her. She had most absurdly fallen in love with this first
stepping-stone toward the goal of her ambition.
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