THE APPLE TREE GIRL
with the power of a logician whose geometry papers had always been marked with an "A," and at the next reasoning with the sublime innocence of a country girl who had never been more than nine miles away from the farm where she was born.
"After all," she thought, "women have solved harder problems than mine. Think of Mrs. Browning, who made herself as famous as her husband; and think of Madame Curie, who discovered radium—and Helen Keller, who was deaf, dumb and blind! And think of the first woman lawyer and the first woman doctor—what sums they set themselves! So, after all," she repeated, "I don't see why I need be frightened—even at—even at—even at marrying a millionaire!"
She blushed at that, and began brushing her hair so hard that it crackled.
"It'll be like algebra, or French, or
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