. Now, let's see.... Oh, yes, the Drakes!... Johnny
is vice president of the Hamilton National Bank, as you know, and owns
a big block of the stock. Carolyn has no money of her own, except what
Johnny gives her, and I rather think he isn't any too generous--"
"They don't get along very well together, do they?"
"N-no!" Penny agreed reluctantly. "You see, Johnny Drake was simply not
cut out for love and marriage. He's a born ascetic, would have been a
monk two or three centuries ago, but he cares as much for Carolyn as he
could for any woman.... The Hammond boys have some inherited money, and
Clive has made a big financial success of architecture.... That leaves
only Janet and Polly, doesn't it?... Polly's an orphan and has barrels
of money, and will have barrels more when her aunt, with whom she lives,
dies and leaves her the fortune she has always promised her."
"And Janet Raymond?"
"Janet's father is pretty rich--owns a big wire-fence factory, but Janet
has only a reasonable allowance," Penny answered. "As for me--I'm _very_
rich: I get thirty-five whole dollars a week, to support myself and
Mother on."
Dundee remained thoughtfully silent for a long minute. Then: "All you
girls are alumnae of Forsyte-on-the-Hudson, and Nita Selim came here
immediately after she had directed a Forsyte play.
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