She had "walked off" with the most desirable man in town, but they were good gamblers.

When they lost they paid.

She had married into "their set." They had accepted her.
She was one of them.

No secret order is more loyal to its initiates.
During that first year and a half of ideal happiness Ruyler, in what leisure he could command, found Helene's rapidly expanding mind as companionable as he had hoped; and the girlish dignity she never lost, for all her naivete and vivacity, gratified his pride and compelled, upon their second brief visit to New York, even the unqualified approval of his family.
She had inherited all the subtle adaptability of her father's race, nothing of the cold and rigid narrowness of her mother's class.

Price had feared that her lively mind might reveal disconcerting shallows, but these little voids were but the divine hiatuses of youth.