She began to associate her with the sacred mystery of life as she had never done.

Then, too, there was the more superficial association with one of another class which she held in outward despite but inward awe.
Ellen gathered up her presents into her lap, and sat there a few minutes through the last dance, which she had refused to Granville Joy, who went away with nervous alertness for another girl, and nobody spoke to her.
When young Lloyd and Cynthia Lennox and the others left, as they did directly, Fanny murmured, "They've gone," and they all knew what she meant.

She was thinking--and so were they all, except Ellen--that that was the reason, because he had to go, that he had not asked Ellen for the last dance.
As for Ellen, she sat looking at her gold watch and chain, which she had taken out of the case.

Her face grew intensely sober, and she did not notice when young Lloyd left.

All at once she had reflected how her father had never owned a watch in his whole life, though he was a man, but he had given one to her.