She was concerned.

It wasn't so much her toilet, which must be everything that it should be--but this Mr.Addison, who was so rich and in society, and Mr.
Rambaud, who was very powerful, Frank said, must like her.

It was the necessity to put her best foot forward now that was really troubling her.

She must interest these men mentally, perhaps, as well as physically, and with social graces, and that was not so easy.

For all her money and comfort in Philadelphia she had never been in society in its best aspects, had never done social entertaining of any real importance.