"I suppose I shall see you to-night if you are staying there.

They have asked me to dinner!" She was taken aback and showed it.

Again he had the advantage.

He did not tell her that on his return he had found scores of invitations from people he had never heard of before.
"You are by way of going into society, then," she answered insolently.
"I don't think I've made any particular efforts," he answered.
"Money," she murmured, "is an everlasting force!" "The people of your world," he answered, with a flash of contempt, "are the people who find it so." She was silent then, and Trent was far from being discouraged by her momentary irritability.

He was crossing the lawn now by her side, carrying himself well, with a new confidence in his air and bearing which she did not fail to take note of.