It was rather disappointing to leave her own city in the West, just at the beginning of the spring gayeties.

It was her first season, and the winter had been distinguished by a series of social triumphs.

She was the toast of all the clubs and the belle of all the balls.

She had developed a rare and fascinating beauty, and had acquired an air so distingue that even her aunt, Miss St.Clair, was completely satisfied.

It was a little hard for her to leave the scene of her triumphs and to abandon the approaching gayeties.
But Quebec had its compensations, and then there were the De Lacys, one of the oldest English families of Quebec.