Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan's Quest Edgar Rice Burroughs

"MY DEAR Jane, you know everyone.""Not quite, Hazel; but one sees everyone in the Savoy.""Who is that woman at the second table to our right?-the one who spoke so cordially. There is something very familiar about her-I'm sure I've seen her before.""You probably have. Don't you remember Kitty Krause?""O-oh, yes; now I recall her. But she went with an older crowd.""Yes, she's a full generation ahead of us; but Kitty'd like to forget that and have everyone else forget it.""Let's see-she married Peters, the cotton king, didn't she?""Yes, and when he died he left her so many millions she didn't have enough fingers to count 'em on; so the poor woman will never know how rich she is.""Is that her son with her?""Son, my dear! That's her new husband.""Husband? Why, she's old enough to-""Yes, of course; but you see he's a prince, and Kitty always was-er-well, ambitious.""Yes, I recall now-something of a climber; but she climbed pretty high, even in aristocratic old Baltimore, with those Peters millions.""But she's an awfully good soul, Hazel. I'm really very fond of her. There isn't anything she wouldn't do for a friend, and underneath that one silly complex of hers is a heart of gold."