Nor did the assiduous attentions of the village young men possess the power to shorten the days for her--and they certainly lengthened the nights.

She liked them because they were her friends from the beginning--and Rosalie was not a snob.

Not for the world would she have hurt the feelings of one poor, humble, adoring soul in Tinkletown; and while her smile was none the less sweet, her laugh none the less joyous, in her heart there was the hidden longing that smiled only in dreams.

She longed for the day that was to bring Elsie Banks to live with Mrs.Holabird, for with her would come a breath of the world she had known for two years, and which she had learned to love so well.
In three months seven men had asked her to marry them.

Of the seven, one only had the means or the prospect of means to support her.