GETTING ACQUAINTED Her opportunity definitely to begin her campaign to lift him up out of politics finally came.

She had been doing something in that direction almost every day.

She must be careful not to alarm his vanity of being absolute master of his own destiny.

The idea of leaving politics and practising law in New York, must seem to originate and to grow in his own brain; she would seem to be merely assenting.

Also, it was a delicate matter because the basic reason for the change was money; and it was her cue as a lady, refined and sensitive and wholly free from sordidness, so to act that he would think her loftily indifferent to money.