She had a governess for her two boys, Tom and Jack, and a nurse for her little Maude, who, in her ambitious heart, she hoped would one day marry Dick St.Clair, the young heir of Grassy Spring.
It never occurred to Dolly that they might possibly remain at the park if Arthur did come home.

She felt sure they could not, for Arthur would hardly approve of his brother's stewardship when he came to realize how much it had cost him.

They would have to leave, and this party she was giving would be her first and last at Tracy Park.

How she wished she had never thought of it, or, having thought of it, that she had omitted from the list those who, she knew, would be obnoxious to the foreign brother, and who had only been invited for the sake of their political influence, which would now be useless, for Frank Tracy as a nobody, with very little money to spend, would not run as well, even in his own party, as Frank Tracy of Tracy Park, with thousands at his command if he chose to take them.
'It is too bad, and I wish we could give up the party,' she said aloud, forgetting in her excitement that Harold was still standing there, gazing curiously at her.

'You here yet?
I thought you had gone!' she said, half angrily, as she recovered herself a little and met the boy's wondering eyes.
'Yes'm; but you ain't going to give the party up ?' he said, afraid of losing his half-dollar.
'Of course not.