Besides, it's a good deal better to be ordered about by somebody as keers for you than not to have anybody in the world as keers whether you come or stay." Besides Mrs.Rawson, there were in the family a widowed daughter, Mrs.
Tripper, a long, pale, thin woman, with sad eyes, who had once been pretty, and her daughter Euphronia, already referred to, who, in right of being very pretty, was the old squire's idol and was never thwarted in anything.

She was, in consequence, a spoiled little damsel, self-willed, very vain, and as susceptible as a chameleon.

The ease with which she could turn her family around her finger gave her a certain contempt for them.

At first she was quite enamoured of the young engineer; but Mr.Rhodes was too busy to give any thought to a girl whom he regarded as a child, and she turned her glances on Gordon.

Gordon also was impervious to her charms.