They say--one of the young ladies does--that she never saw such an unsociable place as New York; nobody calls." "That's good!" said Wetmore.

"I suppose they're all ready for company, too: good cook, furniture, servants, carriages ?" "Galore," said Beaton.
"Well, that's too bad.

There's a chance for you, Miss Vance.

Doesn't your philanthropy embrace the socially destitute as well as the financially?
Just think of a family like that, without a friend, in a great city! I should think common charity had a duty there--not to mention the uncommon." He distinguished that kind as Margaret's by a glance of ironical deference.

She had a repute for good works which was out of proportion to the works, as it always is, but she was really active in that way, under the vague obligation, which we now all feel, to be helpful.