ABSTRACT
The Nonentity is often at first rather pretty. The prettiness of mere youth lasts a year or two, during which, if poor, the nonentity is idle, and ultimately starves. The Nonentity may marry—if she has a fortune; and in wedded life is utterly unfit to be a wife or mother. The Nonentity finds no real friends, for friendship exists only on the basis of a mutual ‘give and take’ of interest or advantage, and there is no interest in her. If the Nonentity does not marry, which is likeliest, her case is worse. She soon fancies herself ailing, grows querulous; she fritters away her foolish youth, and wanes into that most odious of social thorns, a mischievous and scandal-loving old maid.
