She jumped for joy when she was offered that work, and I'm sure she'd be content to live there in the same way for years.

She feels safe as long as she needn't touch her money." Winifred Elvan, since her father's death, had found an engagement as governess in an English family at St.Jean de Luz.

This, in the younger sister's eyes, involved a social decline, more disagreeable to her than she chose to confess.
"The one thing," pursued Rosamund, "that I really dread, is the commonplace.

If I were utterly, wretchedly, grindingly poor, there'd be at all events a savour of the uncommon about it.

I can't imagine myself marrying a prosperous shopkeeper; but if I cared for a clerk who had nothing but a pound a week, I would marry him to-morrow." "The result," said Bertha, "might be lamentably commonplace." "Not if it was the right sort of man .-- Tell me what you think of that bit." She pointed to a framed drawing.