Yet he was not really as forthcoming or as frank as he had been the day before.

The more he liked his companion, the more he was conscious of differences between them which his pride exaggerated.

He himself had never crossed the Atlantic; but he understood that she and her people were "swells"-- well-born in the English sense, and rich.

Secretly he credited them with those defects of English society of which the New World talks--its vulgar standards and prejudices.

There was not a sign of them certainly in Lady Merton's conversation.