My favorite dissipation is to share the troubles of those whom I like, and right now I'm quite as worried over Allie as her father is.
You see, she has outdistanced her parents already; the dream part is wearing off and her new life is a reality.

She is confronted with the grim and appalling necessity of adapting herself to a completely new and bewildering set of conditions.

I'm not sure that she will be equal to it." "I presume you mean that she is sensitive." "Supersensitive! And ambitious! That's the trouble.

If she were dull and conceited she could be both happy and contented.

But she's bright, and she lacks egotism, so she'll never be either.