As Henrietta, with mournful cynicism, put it: "Men the world over care little about women beyond their physical charm.

To realize it, look at us American women, who can do nothing toward furthering men's ambitions.

We've only our physical charms to offer; we fall when we lose them.

And so our old women and our homely women, except those that work or that have big houses and social power, have no life of their own, live on sufferance, alone or the slaves of their daughters or of some pretty young woman to whom they attach themselves." The days dragged for Adelaide.

"I'm afraid he'll write," said she--meaning that she hoped he would.