Then, according to your reasoning it is very unjust of us when we say, as perhaps you have heard it said, that Lady Darrowood is to blame when she is noisy and assertive and treats Lord Darrowood with bad taste ?" "Certainly--she only does those things when she is excited and has gone back to her group.

When she is under her proper control she plays the part of an English marchioness very well.

It is the prerogative of a new race to be able to play a part; the result of the cunning and strength which have been required of the immediate forbears in order to live at all under unfavorable conditions.

Now, had her father been a Deptford ox-slaughterer instead of a Chicago pig-sticker she could never have risen to the role of a marchioness at all.

This is no new country; it does not need nor comprehend bluff, and so produces no such type as Lady Darrowood." At this moment Lady Ethelrida again caught sight of Zara.