In the end she fought the temptation of giving herself a dinner a day for a fortnight out of it, and bought a slender gold bangle with the money, which she slipped upon her wrist with a resolution to keep it there always.

It must be believed that her personal decoration did not enter materially into this design; the bangle was an emblem of one success and an earnest of others.

She wore it as she might have worn a medal, except that a medal was a public voice, and the little gold hoop spoke only to her.
After the triumph that the bangle signified Elfrida felt most satisfaction in what was constantly present to her mind as her conquest of the Cardiffs.

She measured its importance by their value.

Her admiration for Janet's work in the beginning had been as sincere as her emulation of its degree of excellence had been passionate, and neither feeling had diminished with their intimacy.