 Why did Mrs. Lane give up her dream of singing?
Mrs. Lane smiled gently and placed her soft white hand on her daughter’s lean brown one. “None of them is as fascinating as acting to me,” Peggy replied, “and none of them is nearly as important to my life.” I don’t see how you could miss being the biggest success ever—but I’m your father, not a Broadway critic or a play producer, and I could be wrong. All I ask is that you finish college and get a teacher’s certificate so that you can always find useful work if you have to. Ever since she had been a little girl, the barn had been Peggy’s favorite place to go to be by herself and think.
 She didn’t believe she could be good at it and gave up.
 She didn’t have time to study and practice.  She didn’t believe she could be good at it and gave up.  Her parents didn’t allow her to continue.  She got married and had a child.