rendered" could be wiped off, but he saw he must have time.

She was such a little fool.
Again and again he was furious at the fate which had forced him to take her.
The truth was that Rosalie knew nothing whatever about unpaid bills.
Reuben Vanderpoel's daughters had never encountered an indignant tradesman in their lives.

When they went into "stores" they were received with unfeigned rapture.

Everything was dragged forth to be displayed to them, attendants waited to leap forth to supply their smallest behest.

They knew no other phase of existence than the one in which one could buy anything one wanted and pay any price demanded for it.
Consequently Rosalie did not recognise signs which would have been obviously recognisable by the initiated.