She was an envied woman in the social world.

She was a strong man's wife, and possessed of all tact and gentle wisdom in aiding him, but she was not a rival of the mere self-advertisers among the queens of a shifting society.

She could not afford it, even had her inclination bent that way.

She had absorbing riches.

They were a man and her children.
When I brightened up, because my friends were coming back to me, was the great season of the year to me, as to them.