Chapter 1. Why Not?
_ CHAPTER I. WHY NOT?
Polly Street drove her little electric down Michigan Boulevard, with bitterness in her heart.
It was a cold wet day in the early spring of 1920, and Chicago was doing her best to show her utter indifference to anyone‘s opinion as to what spring weather ought to be. It was the sort of day when, if you had any ambition left after a dreary winter, you began to plot desperate things.
Polly hated driving the electric--her soul yearned for a gas car. Mrs. Street, however, did not like a gas car without a man to drive it； the son of the family was in Athens, Mexico, at a coal mine； and Mr. Street, Sr., considered that his income did not run to a chauffeur at the present scale of wage. Therefore, Polly tried to forget her prejudice and to imagine that the neat little car was a real machine.
Second among her grievances was the fact that this was Bob‘s wedding day and she, his adored and adoring sister, was not with him. Bob had been engage

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