It delighted her to see so many well-dressed women, wearing their clothes with an air which she told herself she must acquire.

She was startled by the conductor's calling out: "Now, miss!" She rose as he rang the bell and was ready to get off when the car stopped, for she was eager to cause him as little trouble as possible.
"The house is right straight before you," said the conductor.
"The number's in the transom." She thanked him, descended, was on the sidewalk before Mrs.
Wylie's.

She looked at the house and her heart sank.

She thought of the small sum in her purse; it was most unlikely that such a house as this would harbor her.

For here was a grand stone stairway ascending to a deep stone portico, and within it great doors, bigger than those of the Wright mansion, the palace of Sutherland.