She remembered, however, it is true, that Clara Newell (who had been a schoolmate) had become very super-fine and indifferent to her family after her marriage to an aristocratic and learned German.

Hers had been one of the successful alliances, and after living a few years in Berlin she had quite looked down upon New Yorkers, and had made herself exceedingly unpopular during her one brief visit to her relatives.

She seemed to think her father and mother undignified and uncultivated, and she disapproved entirely of her sisters dress and bearing.

She said that they had no distinction of manner and that all their interests were frivolous and unenlightened.
"But Clara always was a conceited girl," thought Betty.

"She was always patronising people, and Rosy was only pretty and sweet.