MAGGIE AND JOSH Wrath is a baseless flame in the intelligent aged; also, Margaret's grandmother was something more than a mere expert in social craft, would have been woman of the world had not circumstances compressed her to its petty department of fashionable society.

Before Craig had cleared the front door she was respecting him, even as she raged against him.
Insolent, impudent, coarsely insulting--yes, all these.

But very much a man, a masculine force; with weaknesses, it was true, and his full measure of the low-sprung's obsequious snobbishness; but, for all that, strong, persistent, concentrated, one who knew the master-art of making his weaknesses serve as pitfalls into which his enemies were lured, to fall victim to his strength.
"Yes, he will arrive," reflected Madam Bowker.

"Branch will yet have to serve him.

Poor Branch! What a misery for a man to be born with a master's mind but with the lack of will and courage that keeps a man a servant.