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I musn't take any chance on that. I must always be prepared to meet the situation. That did make a difference.

All this forced me into a professional life which young married women, who have married a man with a good earning capacity or some wealth of his own, don't ordinarily undertake. It pushed me into it. In 1918, when he first became ill, I had already decided that, as of that year, I would pull out of the various things that I was in in a semi-professional way. I was doing part time work at the Committee on Safety. I was serving on committees. I wasn't working seriously. My economic responsibility was nothing to speak of. He had a very sizable fortune that he had inherited. I had a little money, at that time, that had come to me. He had a good income from his earnings. Everything was fine. I had decided that I would pull out from the Committee on Safety. It had finished its work, down what it set out to do. I decided I wouldn't undertake anything else and would give more time to the training of my child. I would have at least one more child. I decided I would do that kind of thing.

Then this accident occurred. I saw that it couldn't be done then. I saw that I must get more work to do in 1918. I had to hustle to find things to do that would see us through that crisis, because the money we thought we had had also disappeared. Part of the illness, really, had to do