She was therefore perhaps taken to be magnificent, partly because she was unknown.

Miss Anne Prettyman, the younger, went about frequently to tea-parties,--would go, indeed, to any party to which she might be invited; and was known to have a pleasant taste for pound-cake and sweet-meats.

Being seen so much in the outer world, she became common, and her character did not stand so high as did that of her sister.

Some people were ill-natured enough to say that she wanted to marry Mr.Winthrop; but of what maiden lady that goes out into the world are not such stories told?
And all such stories in Silverbridge were told with special reference to Mr.Winthrop.
Miss Crawley, at present, lived with the Miss Prettymans, and assisted them in the school.

This arrangement had been going on for the last twelve months, since the time in which Grace would have left the school in the natural course of things.