"You said you never felt more at home, more in your element, anywhere than you did that afternoon with Mrs.
Charmond, when she showed you her house and all her knick-knacks, and made you stay to tea so nicely in her drawing-room--surely you did!" "Yes, I did say so," admitted Grace.
"Was it true ?" "Yes, I felt so at the time.

The feeling is less strong now, perhaps." "Ah! Now, though you don't see it, your feeling at the time was the right one, because your mind and body were just in full and fresh cultivation, so that going there with her was like meeting like.

Since then you've been biding with us, and have fallen back a little, and so you don't feel your place so strongly.

Now, do as I tell ye, and look over these papers and see what you'll be worth some day.

For they'll all be yours, you know; who have I got to leave 'em to but you?
Perhaps when your education is backed up by what these papers represent, and that backed up by another such a set and their owner, men such as that fellow was this morning may think you a little more than a buffer's girl." So she did as commanded, and opened each of the folded representatives of hard cash that her father put before her.