For Joe still had his money side, and Fanny knew how to flatter him so.

He still had his loyalty to his first wife, and Fanny so cleverly played to that.

"And he likes her, too--clothes, voice, perfumery and all!" Ethel would declare to herself in anger and vexation.

Oh, these women who used sex every minute! how could men be so easily fooled?
"You can't change a man in a minute," she thought.

"Remember Amy had him five years." Amy had planted so deep in him the feeling that money is everything; she had got the fever into his blood.