I was rich and had everything and she felt she could be of little use or benefit to me.

Her ideal was to be the real helpmeet of a young, struggling man to whom she could and would be indispensable, as her mother had been to her father.

The care of her own family had largely fallen upon her after her father's death when she was twenty-one.

She was now twenty-eight; her views of life were formed.

At times she seemed more favorable and we corresponded.