"I've never visited Europe before, and the English country seems to me just exquisite.

We have a summer place in America, but the country is quite different." She was good-natured and disposed to talk, and, with Emily Fox-Seton's genial assistance, conversation flowed.

Before they were half-way to Mallowe, it had revealed itself that they were from Cincinnati, and after a winter spent in Paris, largely devoted to visits to Paquin, Doucet, and Virot, they had taken a house in Mayfair for the season.
Their name was Brooke.

Emily thought she remembered hearing of them as people who spent a great deal of money and went incessantly to parties, always in new and lovely clothes.

The girl had been presented by the American minister, and had had a sort of success because she dressed and danced exquisitely.