THE APPLE TREE GIRL
idea of how to go about it. Without money he's nothing."
She drew another deep sigh. "Neil isn't that way," she thought. "Money isn't everything to Neil."
"If I could only help Perry in some way," she went on, "I wouldn't feel like this. Because what's a wife for, if she can't help her husband? Now Mr. and Mrs. Phair weren't rich when they married, and so she was able to help him. That's one reason, I guess, why they feel so proud of each other now. But Perry—what could I do for Perry? Nothing! I'd just feel that I was tagging on behind."
She sighed again at that. "Neil isn't that way," she thought. "I'd never feel that I was tagging on to Neil."
"Oh, well," she concluded, "maybe I'm like the fox and the grapes. For one thing, Perry hasn't asked me, and just for that perhaps I think his grapes are sour."
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