When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

The story concludes as The Second World War commences and Alice Duer Miller worries that her son like his father will be killed fighting for the country he loves. Her great grandfather was William Alexander Duer who was the president of Columbia College 1829–1842. Secretary (1936).