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To her
they seemed almost miracles, because they were so obvious, so
simple, yet brought such astounding returns. She saw offices and
heard the explanation of big business; but did not comprehend,
farther than that when an invention was completed, the piling up
of money began. Before the week's visit was over, Kate was trying
to fit herself and her aims and objects of life into the
surroundings, with no success whatever. She felt housed in,
cribbed, confined, frustrated. When she realized that she was
becoming plainly cross, she began keen self-analysis and soon
admitted to herself that she did not belong there.
Kate watched with keen eyes. Repeatedly she tried to imagine
herself in such surroundings for life, a life sentence, she
expressed it, for soon she understood that it would be to her, a
prison. The only way she could imagine herself enduring it at all
was to think of the promised farm, and when she began to think of
that on Jardine terms, she saw that it would mean to sit down and
tell someone else what she wanted done. There would be no battle
to fight.


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