By the bye--if you won't snap my nose off--I suppose your father isn't very well to do ?" "He's very poor.

Such men always are." Lady Ogram lay back and mused.

She had no affection for Constance, yet felt more kindly disposed to her than to any other girl or woman she knew.

Consciously or not, she had come to feel a likeness between her own mind and that of the clergyman's daughter; she interpreted Constance's thoughts by her own.

Indeed, there was a certain resemblance, both mental and moral.