Editing Dale Arden (section)

===Term 4===
So remember when I said that I could have been a great woman, if I hadn't been born rich?  It was right then, right there, that a great woman would have picked herself up and rushed out to take on the universe.  I could have tried forcing myself back into academics, become a spy or a master criminal, started a second career, something.  Instead I drifted.  In style, of course.

When you're born rich, it's easy to avoid taking on the universe.  I settled back, studied the web of communication and obligation that define what is referred to as the nobility, and I took some time off to bum around the galaxy.  Lots of folks were glad to see Dale Arden.

Still, I was new to the scene and I made a mistake.  Something I thought would be funny turned deadly serious, and a certain relative of mine has wanted me dead for it ever since.  Really most sincerely dead, not just socially dead.  Good thing for me I have such finely tuned survival instincts.  And that I know when to double-down on a good hand.