“But you cannot go through life like that!” Neisa exclaimed. “It’s ridiculous, – absurd! Of course, darling Carol, you will fall in love, as your father fell in love with your mother and she with him.”
“It only happens once in a thousand years,” Carol said scornfully. “Papa did not marry Mama for money and she would not have cared if he had been as poor as your father.”
She gave a little sigh.
“If I loved a man, it would not matter to me if he had not a penny in the world. But men are different – they want money, money and more money! If a girl has it with a face like a rhinoceros, it would not worry them!”
There were tears in Carol’s eyes.
She rose from the sofa to open a drawer and find a handkerchief.
“I made a fool of myself,” she said in a low voice. “But Harry was so pers
