For a good deal, he knew; but as much credit as he gave it he was within the mark.
It was only her environment.

She could no more escape from that than if she were in prison.

She gauged every one by what others thought, and she possessed no other gauge.

Yet there was a certain friendliness, too, in Mrs.Yorke.The good lady had softened with the years, and at heart she had always liked Keith.
Most of her conversation was of her friends and their position.

Alice was thinking of going abroad soon to visit some friends on the other side, "of a very distinguished family," she told Keith.
When Keith left the Lancaster house that night Alice Lancaster knew that he had wholly recovered..