There is choice enough for any woman." Yet, as has been already said, Mrs.Lee's first experience was not a success.

She soon declared that New York might represent the petroleum or the pigs, but the gold of life was not to be discovered there by her eyes.
Not but that there was variety enough; a variety of people, occupations, aims, and thoughts; but that all these, after growing to a certain height, stopped short.

They found nothing to hold them up.

She knew, more or less intimately, a dozen men whose fortunes ranged between one million and forty millions.

What did they do with their money?
What could they do with it that was different from what other men did?
After all, it is absurd to spend more money than is enough to satisfy all one's wants; it is vulgar to live in two houses in the same street, and to drive six horses abreast.