He had never heard of a Rand in prison or a beggar.

Moreover, he meant to make his name an honoured one.

But he was a poor man, though he meant also to become a rich man, and he was a Republican, with no thought of changing his party.

Politics might not matter, perhaps, to Miss Churchill, but they mattered decidedly to her uncles and guardians, whom she loved and obeyed.

Wealth and birth mattered too, to them.