"It is a tedious distance to Newport.

But there is no help for it." Laura said to herself, "Long Branch and Cape May are nearer than Newport; doubtless these places are low; I'll feel my way a little and see." Then she said aloud: "Why I thought that Long Branch--" There was no need to "feel" any further--there was that in both faces before her which made that truth apparent.

The dowager said: "Nobody goes there, Miss Hawkins--at least only persons of no position in society.

And the President." She added that with tranquility.
"Newport is damp, and cold, and windy and excessively disagreeable," said the daughter, "but it is very select.

One cannot be fastidious about minor matters when one has no choice." The visit had spun out nearly three minutes, now.