perhaps take them to the great world of Paris; but they settle down, even in Paris, and devote themselves to their husbands' interests, which are their own, and to their children....
"That is it! They are indispensable--not as women, but as partners.

I barely know what your business is about--only that you are in some tremendous wholesale commission thing with tentacles that reach half round the world.
"Only the wives of politicians are any real help to their husbands in this country.

Isabel Gwynne! What a help she will be--has been--to Mr.
Gwynne.

But then she was always busy.

When her uncle died he left her that little ranch and scarcely anything else, she took to raising chickens--not to fuss about and fill in her time, but to keep a roof over her head and have enough to eat and wear.