For one thing, she kept repeating the words "candy cane" baldly, whenever she could find a place for them in her soulless praise; whereas an initiate would not once have uttered the term, but would have looked in silence.

Another initiate, equally silent by his side, would have known him to be of the brotherhood.

Perhaps at the end there would have been respectful wonder expressed as to how long it would stay unbroken and so untasted.

Still he was not unkind to her, except in ways requisite to a mere decent showing forth of his now ascertained superiority.

He helped her to a canter on the new horse; and even pretended a polite and superficial interest in the doll, Fragile, which she took up often.