She poured forth her pity in such words as the poor woman had never heard spoken by a great lady to a humble creature like herself.

The villagers found the new Lady Anstruthers' interviews with them curiously simple and suggestive of an equality they could not understand.

Stornham was a conservative old village, where the distinction between the gentry and the peasants was clearly marked.

The cottagers were puzzled by Sir Nigel's wife, but they decided that she was kind, if unusual.
As Rosalie talked to the farmer's wife she longed for her father's presence.

She had remembered a time when a man in his employ had lost his all by fire, the small house he had just made his last payment upon having been burned to the ground.