A to-day which has not launched new ships, explored new countries, constructed new buildings, added stories to old ones, may consider itself a failure, unworthy even of being consigned to the limbo of respectable yesterdays.
Such a country lives by leaps and bounds, and the ten years which followed the marriage of Reuben Vanderpoel's eldest daughter made many such bounds and leaps.

They were years which initiated and established international social relations in a manner which caused them to incorporate themselves with the history of both countries.

As America discovered Europe, that continent discovered America.

American beauties began to appear in English drawing-rooms and Continental salons.

They were presented at court and commented upon in the Row and the Bois.
Their little transatlantic tricks of speech and their mots were repeated with gusto.