And that is how I was educated, Rita--in a room with a bedridden mother." "She must have been well educated." "I should think so.

She was a college graduate....

When I was fifteen I took the examinations for Barnard--knowing, of course, that I couldn't go--and passed in everything....

If mother could have spared me I could have had a scholarship." "That was hard luck, wasn't it, dear ?" "N-no.

I had mother--as long as she lived.