She was moreover the niece of Sally Owen, and this in itself was a social asset.

She showed her husband the cards that were left at their door, and called his attention to the fact that the representative people of the capital were looking them up.

He made the mistake of suggesting that the husbands of most of the women who had called had axes to grind at the State House,--a suggestion intended to be humorous; but she answered that many of her callers were old friends of the Singletons, and she expressed the hope that he would so conduct himself as to adorn less frequently the newspaper headlines; the broad advertisement of his iniquities would be so much worse now that they were in the city, and with Marian's future to consider, and all.
It should be said that Marian's arrival had not gone unheeded.

The society columns of the capital welcomed her, and the "Advertiser" reproduced her photograph in a picture hat.

She began at once to be among those included in all manner of functions.