She was the best illustration I ever saw of what difficulties burden the ignorant rich who have social ambitions.

She was good-hearted, coarse, shy and hopeful.

A woman may be coarse and yet timid, as I have noted many a time, and Mrs.
Gunderson was of this type.

She hungered for social status, but knew not how to attain it.

To her burly husband's credit, he wished, above all things, to gratify his wife's ambition, but he was as ignorant as she regarding ways and means.