But she was clever enough by then to get an able lawyer; and when it came to the divorce, Fanny succeeded in keeping the house, the one out on Long Island." "Oh," said Ethel tensely.

Her sister shot a look at her.
"I don't care especially for Fanny's ideas about husbands," she said.
"But at least she has a love of a home." And Amy went on to explain to her sister the value and importance of being able to give "week ends." Again the gleam came into her eyes.
"It's money, my dear, it's money.

They are the same women in Newport exactly--just like all the rest of us--only they are richer.

That's all--but it is everything.

Put me in a big house out there, and my friends wouldn't know me in a few years." A cloud came on her face as she looked in the glass.
"But that's just the trouble.