"The poor child, she must have something better than that," she thought, and insensibly she also thought that the girl must lose her evident faith in the splendor of such attire; must change her standard of taste.

She rose and greeted Ellen sweetly, though somewhat reservedly.

When the two were seated opposite each other, Cynthia tried to talk pleasantly, but all the time with a sub-consciousness as one will have of some deformity which must be ignored.

The girl looked so common to her in this array that she began to have a hopeless feeling of disgust about it all.

Was it not manifestly unwise to try to elevate a girl who took such evident satisfaction in a gown like that, in a hat like that?
Ellen wore her watch and chain ostentatiously.