Instead of coming up to you, she made up her mind to pull you down!" "That isn't true!" he said harshly.

"And if you've been taking for God's own truth what Sally Crothers told you--" "Stop! Please!" cried Ethel eagerly.

"I didn't mean what I said just then--I put it badly--oh, so wrong! She didn't say, 'I'll pull him down.' She told herself your friends were snobs! And she said, 'I have friends who are human, and they're quite good enough for me!' So she went on with Fanny Carr.

And others came, the circle grew.

And it was all done day by day, and week by week.