She was too poor, too entirely unsupported by social surroundings, and not sufficiently radiant to catch the roving eye.

To be able to maintain herself decently, to be given an occasional treat by her more fortunate friends, and to be allowed by fortune to present to the face of the world the appearance of a woman who was not a pauper, was all she could expect.

But she felt that Lady Agatha had the right to more.

She did not reason the matter out and ask herself why she had the right to more, but she accepted the proposition as a fact.

She was ingenuously interested in her fate, and affectionately sympathetic.
She used to look at Lord Walderhurst quite anxiously at times when he was talking to the girl.