Lucy realised what kinship means to the English wealthy and well-born class--what a freemasonry it establishes, what opportunities it confers.

The Manistys and Eleanor Burgoyne were part of a great clan with innumerable memories and traditions.

They said nothing of them; they merely took them for granted with all that they implied, the social position, the 'consideration,' the effect on others.
The American girl is not easily overawed.

The smallest touch of English assumption in her new acquaintances would have been enough, six weeks before, to make Lucy Foster open her dark eyes in astonishment or contempt.
That is not the way in which women of her type understand life.
But to-day the frank forces of the girl's nature felt themselves harassed and crippled.

She sat with downcast eyes, constrainedly listening and sometimes replying.