The feet, though small were set flatly.

And yet she was interested in her charms, quick to understand the keener pleasures of life, ambitious to gain in material things.

A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoiter the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject the proper penitent, groveling at a women's slipper.
"That," said a voice in her ear, "is one of the prettiest little resorts in Wisconsin." "Is it ?" she answered nervously.

The train was just pulling out of Waukesha.

For some time she had been conscious of a man behind.