"But, Gwen, dear, can't you understand?" Gloria began to explain with infinite patience. "When Father died, leaving four orphaned daughters, we knew that the fortune he had inherited had been lost through unwise investments, but we did think that the income from this vast acreage and the tenants would be sufficient to permit us to live in about the same comfortable way that we always have, but now we find that even this place is not ours and that we are--well, up against it, as Bobs would say."