That had come from her assimilation at a very tender age with the people who had had the care of her.

They had belonged by right of birth with the most brilliant social lights, but lack of money had hampered them.

They blazed, as it were, under ground glass with very small candle-powers, although they were on the same shelf with the brilliant incandescents.

Rose's money had been the main factor which enabled them to blaze at all.

Otherwise they might have still remained on the shelf, it is true, but as dark stars.
Rose had not been sent away to school for two reasons.