At home, in South Harniss, they had met many times, but always at the store.

He was pleasant and jolly and she liked him well enough, although she had refused his invitations to go on sailing parties and the like.

She knew perfectly well that his mother and sister would not have approved of these invitations, for in the feminine Keith mind there was a great gulf fixed between the summer resident and the native.

The latter was to be helped and improved but not encouraged socially beyond a certain point.

Mary sought neither help nor improvement of that kind.