He was a small farmer's son and the Osborns were important people.

He knew Osborn's family pride, which he thought his daughter had inherited.

In Osborn, it was marked by arrogance; in the girl by a gracious, half-stately calm.
For all that, the pride was there, and Kit, resolving that he would not be a fool, went to the post office and put Janet's letter in the box..