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A failure! Her little first-born idea had flivvered! Would she ever have another? Yes! She had another almost immediately -- of the same kind. She must keep Maurice from marrying Edith and to do that it was necessary -- not for her to live. No, that would be good for only twenty or twenty-five years or maybe thirty -- if she lived to be eighty. Maurice would be only sixty then and Edith fifty and they might still marry.
She must do better than that. He must marry Lily! Lily would live at least fifty years more. By that time Maurice would surely be dead and Edith foiled, forever. She, herself, must die at once so Maurice might marry Lily....