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 idea of how to go about it. Without money he's nothing."

She drew another deep sigh. "Neil isn't that way," she thought. "Money isn't everything to Neil."

"If I could only help Perry in some way," she went on, "I wouldn't feel like this. Because what's a wife for, if she can't help her husband? Now Mr. and Mrs. Phair weren't rich when they married, and so she was able to help him. That's one reason, I guess, why they feel so proud of each other now. But Perry—what could I do for Perry? Nothing! I'd just feel that I was tagging on behind."

She sighed again at that. "Neil isn't that way," she thought. "I'd never feel that I was tagging on to Neil."

"Oh, well," she concluded, "maybe I'm like the fox and the grapes. For one thing, Perry hasn't asked me, and just for that perhaps I think his grapes are sour."