She had also grown very proud and very exclusive in her ideas, and when poor Mrs.Peterkin, who was growing, too, with _her_ million, ventured to call at the park, the call was returned with a card which Doily's coachman left at the door.

Since the night of her party, and the election which followed when Frank was defeated, she had ignored the Peterkins, and laughed at what she called their vulgar imitation of people above them, and when she heard that Mary Jane hail hired a governess for her two children, Bill and Ann Eliza, she scoffed at the airs assumed by _come-up_ people, and wondered if Mrs.Peterkin had forgotten that she was one of Grace Atherton's hired girls.

Dolly had certainly forgotten the Langley life, and was to all intents and purposes the great lady of the park, who held herself aloof from the common herd, and taught her children to do the same.
She had seen Jerry enter the house that morning with a feeling of disapprobation, which had not diminished as the day wore on and still the child staid, and what was worse, Maude was not sent for to join her.
'Not that I would have allowed it, if she had been,' she said to herself, for she did not wish her daughter intimate with one of whose antecedents nothing was known, but Arthur might at least have invited her.

He had never noticed her children much, and this she deeply resented.

Maude, who knew of Jerry's presence in the house had cried to go in and play with her, but Mrs.Tracy had refused, and promised as an equivalent a drive in the phaeton around the town.