I am like one of those plants that have lost their own sap and color, and suck in their life from another.

It scares me sometimes." Miss Vance smiled with polite contempt.

No doubt Frances had a shrewd business faculty, but in other matters she was not ten years old.
"And George will marry some time," she said curtly.
"Oh, I hope so! And soon.

Then I shall have a daughter.

I know just the kind of a wife George will choose," she chattered on eagerly.