You do not know the power vested in the hands of the rich and mighty.

An artist must court public opinion, and if one in the position of Lord Ridsdale was his determined enemy and foe, he could expect nothing but ruin." "That is not fair," said the heiress, thoughtfully.
"Then again, if you were to tell Miss Carleton, she would dismiss my brother, she would complain of him, she would ruin him as completely as it was in human power to do so.

The world is not generous; it is only noble souls that believe in noble souls.

Such people as those would always persist in considering Allan a fortune-hunter and nothing more." All of which arguments Miss Lyster intended to impress upon her pupil's mind, for this one great object of keeping Allan's wooing a secret.

If that could be until Miss Arleigh was twenty-one, and then she could be persuaded into marrying him, their fortunes were made.
That was her chief object.