Chapters XIV and XV Summary

Fania tells Sara that her husband Abe has a business partner and that he will make a good match for Sara. One day, Sara gets a letter from Fania with the news that Max Goldstein believes Sara would make him a good wife and that he is coming to visit. That Sunday afternoon, Max knocks on Sara's door. She is in a poor state of mind. She has just failed geometry and feels life is passing her by. The handsome man is taken with her and she says she feels instantly at ease with him. Max says he admires Sara for her willingness to make her own way. He says he ran away from home as a young man, that he built his own fortune by hard work and that he has become wealthy trading on the...