How it begins
"Professor James Parkhurst, I consider you a colossal failure as an educator," said Francesca, his daughter, known to friend and family as Bambina, or Bambi for short. Professor Parkhurst lifted a startled face from his newspaper and surveyed his only child across the breakfast table. "That's the profession you intended me for? Who's to pay the piper? It's expensive to be happy and also unlucrative." "I have always expected to support you until your husband claimed that privilege." "Dear me, that would be unfortunate. It is the first duty of a husband to support his wife." "Old-fashioned husbands, yes—but not modern ones. Lots of men marry to be supported nowadays.
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