He knew everyone within a radius of twenty miles, and was upon terms of easy intimacy with the de Vignes and many others who received him with pleasure, but very seldom went out of their way to encounter his wife.
Dinah shrewdly suspected that this fact accounted for much of the bitterness of her mother's outlook.

Her ambition had apparently died of starvation long since, but her resentment remained.

Her hand was against practically all the world, including her daughter, whose fairy-like daintiness and piquancy were so obvious a contrast to the somewhat coarse and flashy beauty that had once been hers.

For all that Dinah inherited from her mother was her gipsy darkness.

Mrs.Bathurst was not flashy now, and any attempt at personal adornment on Dinah's part was always very sternly repressed.