She sometimes wondered if she was ever pointed out, if her name was ever mentioned without the addition of the explanatory statement that she was the multi-millionaire's daughter.

As a child she had thought it ridiculous and tiresome, as she had grown older she had felt that only a remarkable individuality could surmount a fact so ever present.
It was like a tremendous quality which overshadowed everything else.
"It wounds my vanity, I have no doubt," she had said to her father.
"Nobody ever sees me, they only see you and your millions and millions of dollars." Salter watched her pass up the gangway.

The phase through which he was living was not of the order which leads a man to dwell upon the beautiful and inspiriting as expressed by the female image.

Success and the hopefulness which engender warmth of soul and quickness of heart are required for the development of such allurements.

He thought of the Vanderpoel millions as the lady on the deck had thought of them, and in his mind somehow the girl herself appeared to express them.