Marian had grown to womanhood without realizing her mother's ideals.

She had hoped to make a very different person of her daughter, and Sylvia's reappearance intensified her sense of defeat.

Even in the retrospect she saw no reason why Marian might not have pursued the course that Sylvia had followed; in her confused annoyances and agitations she was bitter not only against Marian but against Marian's father.

The time had come when she must take a stand against his further dallyings in politics.
Her day at the convention hall had yielded only the most disagreeable impressions.

Such incidents as had not eluded her own understanding on the spot had been freely rendered by the newspapers.