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Rh “Success, and how to get it.”

“Success, in the general sense of the word, has never seemed very important to me. To do your work well—”

“Yes, I know. It is the fact that you have not thought success important that hampers me so in the choice of a husband.”

“Bambina, that is the second time a husband has been mentioned in this discussion. Have you some individual under consideration?”

“I have. I have practically decided on him.”

“You don’t tell me! Do I know the young man?”

“Oh, yes—Jarvis Jocelyn.”

“He has proposed to you?”

“Oh, no. He doesn’t know anything about it. I have just decided on him.”

“But, my dear, he is penniless.”

“That’s why I reproach you that you haven’t brought me up to support Jarvis in a luxury he will have to get used to.”

“But why have you settled on this youth? I seem to recall a great many young men who are always about. I presume they admire you. Certainly this dreamer is the most ineligible of them all.”