The reading room
Ideal Romance #8
"The Price of Love" follows a woman who dreams of wealth and position, having set her sights on marrying a rich man after her family was evicted from their slum apartment due to her father's gambling debts. She meets and falls in love with Robert Gray, a poor settlement worker, but rejects his proposal of marriage and life in the slums, instead pursuing her ambitions elsewhere. Two years later, at her wedding to a wealthy man, she encounters Robert again and discovers through his infidelity that her dreams of happiness through riches have left her empty. "My Husband Was Cheating" depicts a woman who realizes her marriage is crumbling when she finds evidence of her husband Jack's infidelity, including a perfumed handkerchief and theater ticket stubs indicating he has been unfaithful for over a year.