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The dress she had on had been given her by Ursula; Ursula's motor had carried her to the feast from which they were both returning. She counted on spending the following August with the Gillows at Newport... and the only alternative was to go to California with the Bockheimers, whom she had hitherto refused even to dine with.
How could it be otherwise, if she were to return again to her old dependence on Ellie Vanderlyn, Ursula Gillow, Violet Melrose? And beyond that, only the Bockheimers and their kind awaited her.... A knock on the door what a relief! It was Mrs. Match again, with a telegram. To whom had Susy given her new address?
But it was my only chance and what the deuce is one to do?" "I wish I knew!" she sighed, thinking of the Bockheimers; and he turned and looked at her. "Knew what?" "The answer to your question. What is one to do when one sees both sides of the problem? Or every possible side of it, indeed?"
Algie's so rich, so appallingly rich, that I have to be perpetually on the watch to keep other women away from him and it's too exhausting...." "Algie?" Mrs. Vanderlyn's lovely eyebrows rose. "Algie: Algie Bockheimer. Didn't you know, I think he said you've dined with his parents. Nobody else in the world is as rich as the Bockheimers; and Algie's their only child.
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