"But I thought you were such a little American-revolution patriot that you would not be impressed by anything like that." "I'm not impressed, exactly," Mary answered stoutly, "but this is the first girl I ever saw who is own daughter to a lord, and it does add a flavour to one's interest in her.

Oh, I see, now.

_That_ is why Ethelinda is so friendly," she added, with sudden intuition of the truth.

"She thinks that Miss Berkeley is somebody worth cultivating, and that I'm not." "Maybe it's a case of 'birds of a feather,'" said Elise, who had heard part of the conversation.

"Ethelinda aspires to a family tree and a coat-of-arms, too.