"She means well, and she is a good housekeeper, but she is no companion for a man like that." Poor Mrs.Sturtevant was aware of her status in Fairbridge, and she was not without a steady, plodding ambition of her own.

That utterly commonplace, middle-aged face had some lines of strength.

Mrs.
Sturtevant was a member of the women's club of Fairbridge, which was poetically and cleverly called the Zenith Club.
She wrote, whenever it was her turn to do so, papers upon every imaginable subject.

She balked at nothing whatever.

She ranged from household discussions to the Orient.