Most fortunes are made more by good luck than good management.' Well, luck has something to do with making a million, too. But you can force luck. You can make it come to you. By hard work. Generally what looks like luck is just the logical result of keeping everlastingly on the job. When opportunity knocks at your door it's a wise thing to be there instead of up at the Princeton Club shooting billiards. So hard work pays, Dudley, in good money as well as good discipline. Look at this Chartres business. But still I blame myself for not giving you your chance sooner.
"You mustn't forget that your wife is the daughter of a very rich man, one of the most prominent millionaires in South America—he arrived in New York the other day by the way—and it was a terrific come down for her to be forced to live on a broker's clerk's wages. Your living quarters you must admit are—er—rather cramped and the very thought of spending some of these recent broiling days there is enough to make anybody swelter. She is young and beautiful, used all her life to extravagant clothes and entertainment. You couldn't exactly blame her for rushing to her rich friends when she got the chance and taking up her life with them when she unexpectedly got the money. Could you?
