"The wedding is to take place in a few weeks, I believe ?" "I hear so," said the father.

"Fine young man, Rhodes?
Your cousin, isn't he?
Been very successful ?" "Yes." Once, as Keith passed along down Broadway, just where some of the great shops were at that time, before the tide had rolled so far up-town, a handsome carriage and pair drew up in front of one of the big shops, and a lady stepped from it just behind him.

She was a very pretty young woman, and richly dressed.

A straight back and a well-set head, with a perfect toilet, gave her distinction even among the handsomely appointed women who thronged the street that sunny morning, and many a woman turned and looked at her with approval or envy.
The years, that had wrought Keith from a plain country lad into a man of affairs of such standing in New Leeds that a shrewd operator like Rawson had selected him for his representative, had also wrought a great change in Alice Lancaster.

Alice had missed what she had once begun to expect, romance and all that it meant; but she had filled with dignity the place she had chosen.