It would not have been like Milly to fail to see and greet at once the wife of Reuben Vanderpoel.

She would count anywhere, even in London sets it was not easy to connect one's self with.

She had already discovered that there were almost as many difficulties to be surmounted in London by the wife of an unimportant baronet as there had been to be overcome in New York by a girl without money or place.

It was well to have something in the way of information to offer in one's small talk with the lucky ones and Milly knew what subject lay nearest to Mrs.
Vanderpoel's heart.
"Miss Vanderpoel has evidently been enjoying her visit to Stornham Court," she said, after her first few sentences.

"I met Mrs.Worthington at the Embassy, and she said she had buried herself in the country.