And Mr.Hanbury-Green was going to sit upon her left hand at dinner and would afford new flint for her steel.

He was a recent acquisition, and of undoubted coming value.

His views were in reality nearer her heart politically than those of John Derringham.

Deep down in her being was a strong class hatred--undreamed of, and which would have been vigorously denied.

She remembered the burning rage and the vows of vengeance which had convulsed her as a girl, because the refined and gently bred women of her own New York's inner circle would have none of her, and how it had been her glory to trample upon as many of them as she could, when Vincent Cricklander had placed her as head of his fine mansion in Fifty-ninth Street, having moved from the old family home in Washington Square.