The Gift of the Magi | Delia Young
Delia is the wife of Jim Young. As the story opens, she is counting the money that she has saved to buy her husband his Christmas present, and she is reduced to tears when she realizes how little she has. Delia and Jim are poor; she has only managed to scrape together $1.87, despite saving carefully for months. But O. Henry makes Delia's happiness in her love for Jim quite clear: "Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling—something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honour of being owned by Jim."
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