When this happened each stared defiantly at the other.

She wanted ever so much to get up in the world, and yet namby-pamby men of better social station than herself did not attract her at all.

She wanted a man.

Now and then there was one "something like," but not entirely, who appealed to her, but most of them were politicians or legislators, acquaintances of her father, and socially nothing at all--and so they wearied and disappointed her.

Her father did not know the truly elite.