Father and Mother made no objection to that.

They thought it was merely a whim on my part.
But it wasn't a whim, as they found out later, for I wrote stuff for the paper during my senior year, too, and when I did graduate I turned the house upside down by getting a position on a newspaper in a big city.
Father and Mother forgave me after awhile, but not until I had been at work on the other paper for a year.
"At first I did society, then clubs, went back to society again, and at last my opportunity came to do general reporting.

I was the only woman on the staff who had a chance to go after the big stories.

I have been doing that only the last two years, though.
"Naturally, I made more money on the paper than I would as a stenographer.

I saved it, too.