"She told me that if I ruined her husband's 'career,' as she called it, she'd break us apart once and for all.

She wouldn't have Crothers in the firm--not only because it meant money lost, but because Crothers' wife had turned her down." Ethel looked at him sharply.
"Oh--he has a wife," she said.
"Yes, and she wasn't your sister's kind.

She was a college woman who wanted to be a great painter--and when the painting petered out, she shut her jaw and said, 'Never mind.

If I can't paint landscapes I can make them.' And she took up landscape gardening.

She married Burt Crothers soon after that, but she stuck to her work and in course of time it fitted in with her husband's.