Her recent experiences with the Vances had wholly unfitted her to view her own state with complacence.

The glamour of the high life of the city had, in the few experiences afforded her by the former, seized her completely.

She had been taught how to dress and where to go without having ample means to do either.

Now, these things-ever-present realities as they were--filled her eyes and mind.
The more circumscribed became her state, the more entrancing seemed this other.

And now poverty threatened to seize her entirely and to remove this other world far upward like a heaven to which any Lazarus might extend, appealingly, his hands.
So, too, the ideal brought into her life by Ames remained.