Two meets, a hockey-match, a concert at the neighboring town, a dinner-party and various "drums," besides a luncheon-party and afternoon tea at Beechcote itself in honor of the guest--Mrs.Colwood thought the girl might have been content! But she had examined everything presented to her with a very critical eye, and all through it had been plain that she was impatient and dissatisfied; for, inevitably, her social success was not great.

Diana, on the other hand, was still a new sensation, and something of a queen wherever she went.

Her welcoming eyes, her impetuous smile drew a natural homage; and Fanny followed sulkily in her wake, accepted--not without surprise--as Miss Mallory's kinswoman, but distinguished by no special attentions.
In any case, she would have rebelled against the situation.

Her vanity was amazing, her temper violent.

At home she had been treated as a beauty, and had ruled the family with a firm view to her own interests.
What in Alicia Drake was disguised by a thousand subleties of class and training was here seen in its crudest form.