"She's happy now where she is," said he to himself, as he rode along.

"They all treat her there as an equal at Greshamsbury.

What though she be no cousin to the Thornes of Ullathorne.

She has found her place there among them all, and keeps it on equal terms with the best of them.

There is Miss Oriel; her family is high; she is rich, fashionable, a beauty, courted by every one; but yet she does not look down on Mary.