They were hardly ten years old before she discounted their future careers in her dreams.

Doubting whether she would ever succeed herself, she centred in them all her hopes of overcoming the animosity of fate.

They would provide satisfaction for her disappointed vanity, they would give her that wealthy, honourable position which she had hitherto sought in vain.
From that time forward, without abandoning the business struggle, she conceived a second plan for obtaining the gratification of her domineering instincts.

It seemed to her impossible that, amongst her three sons, there should not be a man of superior intellect, who would enrich them all.

She felt it, she said.