CHAPTER V.
ANGELA Wilberforce Kingsnorth left three children: Nathaniel--whose acquaintance we have already made, and who in a large measure inherited much of his father's dominant will and hardheadedness--Monica, the elder daughter, and Angela the younger.
Nathaniel was the old man's favourite.
While still a youth he inculcated into the boy all the tenets of business, morality and politics that had made Wilberforce prosperous.
Pride in his name: a sturdy grasp of life: an unbending attitude toward those beneath him, and an abiding reverence for law and order and fealty to the throne--these were the foundations on which the father built Nathaniel's character.
Next in point of regard came the elder daughter Monica.

Patrician of feature, haughty in manner, exclusive by nature she had the true Kingsnorth air.

She had no disturbing "ideas": no yearning for things not of her station.

She was contented with the world as it had been made for her and seemed duly proud and grateful to have been born a Kingsnorth.
She was an excellent musician: rode fairly to hounds: bestowed prizes at the local charities with grace and distinction--as became a Kingsnorth--and looked coldly out at the world from behind the impenetrable barriers of an old name.
When she married Frederick Chichester, the rising barrister, connected with six county families, it was a proud day for old Kingsnorth.
His family had originally made their money in trade.

The Chichesters had accumulated a fortune by professions.