He wished me to go to Europe this summer, but the light of ambition burns too vividly to be quenched even by my beloved Europe.

When next I go abroad it will be with my own hard-earned wages.
"I haven't done anything startling yet; I have been chronicling faithfully the doings of society.

As most of the elect are out of town, my news gathering has not been in the nature of a harvest.
However, I am still striving, still hoping for the day when I shall leave society far behind and sally forth on the trail of a big story.
"But, I am diverging from one of the chief purposes of this letter.
It is to introduce to you Kathleen West, an ambitious and particularly clever young woman, who is a 'star' reporter on this paper.

It seems that she and I have changed ambitions.

I sigh for journalistic fame, and she sighs for college.