Before her hope could be fulfilled she knew she must enter society, and she studied it thoughtfully--its whims and meannesses as well as its laws and refinements.

If she ever reached Graydon's side she meant to stand there with a knowledge and confidence as assured as his own.

She soon learned that it is common enough for women to seek to win men by every alluring and coquettish device.

She would employ no devices whatever.
She would merely reappear above his horizon among other luminaries, and shine with her own pure, unborrowed light.

Then it must depend upon himself whether she ever became his own "bright particular star." So much she felt she had a right to do, and no conventional hesitation as to her course stood in her way.