The Eight Hundred Dollar Daughter Trap

Rose Miller survives her university days in Chicago on eight hundred dollars a month, a sum her father Arthur Miller says is all her wealthy mother will spare for them. He tells her that Diana Montgomery, a titan of industry, regards them as small-town trash and stray dogs, and Rose has hated her for it.

Then Diana appears at a campus lecture and confronts Rose over a four-dollar tray of broccoli and rice, insisting she wires twenty thousand dollars every month. The bank records on Diana's phone show a long, unbroken list of transfers, all received by Arthur Miller. Rose hides the truth behind a lie about a savings account, and learns of a Porsche she never received.

Back in her dorm, Rose calls the mother she never dared to call and asks for fifty thousand dollars, sent to a new account. The money arrives in seconds, with a memo telling her never to hesitate to ask.