Her cultivation was artificial, but Canada was primitive and stern.

In the towns, one found inventions that lightened labor, and brought to the reach of all a physical comfort that in England only the rich enjoyed, but the contrasts were sharp.

One left one's hotel, with its very modern furniture, noisy elevators and telephones, and plunged into the wilderness where all was as it had been from the beginning.

Grace shrank from primitive rudeness and hated adventure.

Living by rule she distrusted all she did not know.